conflageration nation: where we had fun trying not to die

[porphyre]

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[lafinjack]

Makes me think of Trent's van from Daria, whatever they called it.

[porphyre]

What's this? I'm not getting any ringing bells.

[lafinjack]

[lafinjack]

I think they named it at some point, but my Google-fu isn't bringing anything up. I could have hallucinated it.

[a_dream_tiger]

Quite the tale, milady. All of you seemed to be very much on the ball with quick action, good thinking and good spirits. There is no one else I'd rather have next to me in a burning car then you and your crew. ;-T

[porphyre]

We were laughing the entire time, minus when we were actually putting out the fire. Also, I left out all the amazing slip-on-ice pratfalls we had. I was the only person that didn't fall, even including our rescuer, the random pesdestrian, and the few people who walked past.

Plus, to add insult to injury, some tiny little silver car no bigger than a mouse whipped up the hill past us no problem about three minutes after we abandoned the van.

[marvinprime]

I had a similar experience about 15 years ago:

My parents' car stalled while I was driving it in Victoria. As I was trying to get it going again, flames started coming out from under the hood. The front 1/3 of the car went up in a huge tower (well... 15 feet?) of flames. The hood curled up by tinfoil, the front tires melted away. Poor old big-ass Oldsmobile.

Did all the cat food/stuff get lost (It was a lot of really nice food, it would be a pity for it to have gone to waste)?

[porphyre]

Now that's a fire. Gosh.

We rescued all the cat-food by taxi after dinner, refusing to let it languish. Since then my cats have successfully dragged everything that had catnip out of the bag as well as out of the cupboards, and we've had to hide it all in the fridge.If they were cognizant enough to know you were responsible, they would never stop thanking you. As is, I may have to bring you a cake.

[burntcopper]

wow. now that's impressive, a definite tale to tell the small children you try to get off your lawn in future....

[porphyre]

Except that it was Nick and Nocile's first date, so for the narrative, it's got to be the story they tell their grandkids.