Tincup
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What do you get when you leave a man alone in the house.. (now that's a story in itself)...
After offering him your favorite bean bag heating pad to keep his hands warm while he is cleaning out the freezer on a cold day?
I SPECIFICALLY said as I was leaving...
You put it in the microwave for TWO minutes and TWO minutes only. No longer than that.
Did he listen? Yeah, right.
I came back home and the house was really really cold and it was full of thick stinky smoke ... and I mean STINKY...
Gag you stinky!!!
Once again, I really don't think he listened to me.
It appears he stuck the bean bag in the microwave (which I was told later was really filled with wheat.. and YES.. I am impressed he knows the difference between his grains and legumes)..
Then he turned the microwave on for TWENTY minutes and walked outside with a friend to get some tools from the shed and they started telling hunting stories.
Needless to say, what is left of the bean bag looks like the bottom of a grill after most of the charcoal bricks have been cooking all day.
Anyhow...
He managed to air out the house for a couple of hours (and he swears it was a LOT worse before I came home)..
And he scrubbed down the microwave using all the clean towels in the drawer and at least one roll of paper towels too...
But get this... he was PROUD of himself because he didn't use any soap when cleaning the microwave up!
"Why didn't you use soap", I asked?
He said he was afraid he might damage the surface of the microwave if he used any harsh soap and I might be upset if he did.
HELLO???
You don't think a smoldering FIRE that could have burned down the house ... and that made the whole house smell like smoldering garbage at a dump ALL NIGHT LONG affected my mood any?
UGGGG!!!
A friend called about an hour after I got home. Speaker phone was on and I heard him tell his friend he was in the dog house for burning up my favorite bean bag heating pad. He told our friend he was going to buy me some flowers to make up for it.
His friend said.. "She doesn't want FLOWERS you *^%#^*#... she wants a new bean bag!!!"
Then between them both ... after much discussion... they decided he better just go ahead and get the flowers AND get me a new bean bag.
And to think I ONLY get out of the house every week or so. Guess that is a good thing now that I think about it.
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Oh wow. That's pretty bad. FUNNY to be reading about and not living I have to say!
Poor Tc.
The smell will probably be hanging around for quite some time.
And I think you definitely deserve flowers AND a new bean bag. And something else nice thrown in there as well!
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Dekrator48
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Oh Gosh, I hope the smell is gone now.
My husband can innocently mess up anything that requires using his fingers to push buttons....answering machines, microwave,DVD player,etc.
I wonder if he meant to set it for 2:00 min and accidently pushed an extra "0"?...maybe not....
Anyways, I am so glad that your house did not catch on fire.
I hope today goes better!!
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Oh my. That must smell terrible!!! YES you need flowers AND a new bean bag!!
Men are so interesting.
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ping
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Oh, do I ever believe it!!! The lack of audio acuity in the male gender of our species (I question the "our species" part), is genetic. Yes, passed down to all generations....
I work with over 100 men in my group here at the refinery. All of them have at least a Bachelors in some form of Engineering, many have PhD's. ASK ME IF THEY KNOW HOW TO BREW COFFEE IN AN AIRPOT? The answer is NO! I had to give lessons!
P-U, Tincup. I've no doubt your house stank, stunk and stinked like crazy. Yes, flowers and at least one new bean bag.
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randibear
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i swear i needed this...i laughed so hard.
hey, his friend's name is not mike is it!!!!
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just don
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I am GUILTY as charged
being a guy!!!
Glad you were there to make order of chaos.
Ask anyone who ever ate my cooking,,,
I can burn water with the best of them!!!
Incense candles(if your not allergic),,,regular candles and lots of air
Or Glade stick ons,/plugins.
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map1131
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It pays to write down instructions. Step by step helps. To funny!!
My neck buddy stinks up the house with only a 3 minute zap.
Pam
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Tincup
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You all DO make me laugh! I see that you all "get" it! HA!
And I'd be here playing more and resting... but guess what I've been doing? YEP! I'm STILL trying to get the stink out!
It is not a normal "stink"... and I am a firefighter so I KNOW normal fire stink. This is incredibly bad.
I've been washing walls and ceilings and airing out everything all day long!
Last night I slept with Vicks Vabor rub under my nose to help me not smell the stink all night. I still smelled it!
Not to mention my eyes are burning... and then there is the sneezing and hacking cough. And that nagging headache too.
Oh... and the promise of flowers and a new bean bag?
Although I want to hold my breath... it won't be while waiting for the flowers... and it sure won't be while waiting for the new bean bag either.
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Too funny, or maybe not funny, but you know what I mean...
If you want to try my favorite remedy for cleaning up after a little smelly accident, you could get some Orange Guard or TKO Orange and put a little in a spray bottle, fill up with water and apply to every surface -
it cleaned up after a fire here when neither of the two fire restoration companies I contacted knew what to do with the fire smells.
It's also my tick repellent. Hey, I use it for everything.
I think in the future you should take him with you when you go out rather than leave him.
One of my more memorable clean-it-up-before-anyone-gets-home messes: I heated up some canned chocolate sauce and then went to open it with a can opener.
Only problem was, it was so steamed up that it jumped out of my hands and spun around and around in the kitchen, and I had the equivalent of a Jackson Pollack artwork on all walls and the ceiling.
I remember my feeling of sheer mortification. So I was kinda busy for the next while. Can't remember if I had all the cleaning done before the housemates came home or not.
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MADDOG
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Tincup Were do you dig up these guyes?It must depend on were you live in this country.
Here the men all cook, in fact we allmost get in arguments about who makes the best chilli soup, barbe Q, ect..
My friends all cook,my brother in law ran his own restraunt.
As for Just Don he makes real good fried bacon and eggs.
I realise that a bean bag isn't cooking but he should have known better.
MADDOG P.S. TC now I call you smokey rainbow toes.
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Yes, Lyme2, I never quite looked at chocolate sauce in the same way again, having learned what its potential was...
I dunno know, Maddog, about cooking with a beanbag - maybe if one DOES leave the beanbag in the microwave for a VERY limited duration, some interesting sauces could be conjured up for it - something to go with the beans...oh dear, you know who likes chocolate...
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Tincup
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Maddog said.. "Were do you dig up these guyes?"
I'm afraid they come with the territory!
But some can cook. This is the same one that made the General Taos but instead of using chicken- they used frog legs.
And the same one that used my kitchen for a muskrat cooking party while I was away.
I just looked for that post and brought it up for you.
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