Unlucky me?
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it” -Tennessee Williams
Excerpt from an e-mail to boyfriend:
My building was set on fire last night. Some idiot(s) set a port-a-potty next to the building on fire, it set the siding on fire, and 20 foot flames and a melted port-a-potty resulted. The siding nearest the blaze needed to be removed. It was around 1:00 am, and I didn't answer the door when the fire department knocked because I don't have a peep hole*, but I eventually went outside and the fire was being put out. I'm quite sure no one in my building noticed it, it must have been someone across the street. My apartment smelled like smoke all night, I tried to imagine to myself that it was just a fireplace, but it was scary to wake up my million times in the night (as I always do) and remember, and think what if no one saw it?
I know what it's like to be around people who are thinking up stupid things to do. "Oh, let's go XXXX, it'll be so funny." They don't think about anything bad that could happen, they just think about their amusement. But setting something next to a building on fire is barely a step away from setting a building on fire. My mom said "what happened to just tipping them over? It just smells, no major damage..."
Everything is fine, the part of the building was outside a stairwell and not someone's place.
*I was watching a movie and the pounding quickly transfered to the door across the hall, so I assumed it was a drunk person looking for the correct apartment.
Excerpt from an e-mail to boyfriend:
My building was set on fire last night. Some idiot(s) set a port-a-potty next to the building on fire, it set the siding on fire, and 20 foot flames and a melted port-a-potty resulted. The siding nearest the blaze needed to be removed. It was around 1:00 am, and I didn't answer the door when the fire department knocked because I don't have a peep hole*, but I eventually went outside and the fire was being put out. I'm quite sure no one in my building noticed it, it must have been someone across the street. My apartment smelled like smoke all night, I tried to imagine to myself that it was just a fireplace, but it was scary to wake up my million times in the night (as I always do) and remember, and think what if no one saw it?
I know what it's like to be around people who are thinking up stupid things to do. "Oh, let's go XXXX, it'll be so funny." They don't think about anything bad that could happen, they just think about their amusement. But setting something next to a building on fire is barely a step away from setting a building on fire. My mom said "what happened to just tipping them over? It just smells, no major damage..."
Everything is fine, the part of the building was outside a stairwell and not someone's place.
*I was watching a movie and the pounding quickly transfered to the door across the hall, so I assumed it was a drunk person looking for the correct apartment.