Boys will be firestarters!
My two lads have always been a bit.....lively. Luckily this has only ever caused minor damage to the family home so that's alright then.
Incident 1 - Eldest son aged about 7 calling casually down the stairs "mum, there's smoke coming out of Vintage's bedroom" "Yeah yeah, course there is" "No really, there's smoke". Thought perhaps I'd better take a look and there is indeed smoke. Panicking slightly, I run in to find that 5 year old Vintage has poured his drink over his bedside lamp causing his lightbulb to explode, at which point he decides to cover the whole sorry mess with his pyjamas 'so mum doesn't find out' and pretends to be asleep. Luckily just some singed pyjamas that time.
Incident 2 - I come down one Sunday morning not long after incident 1 to see Vintage and his brother sitting innocently watching children's TV. Aaahh, I think, how sweet, I'll go and get a cup of tea. But what's this?The kitchen seems to be flooded with water with bits of burnt vinyl flooring underneath. Mutual alibi time, nobody knows anything. I find out much later that Vintage had decided to discover what happens when a few vitamin tablets are put directly on to the burners of the gas cooker turned up nice and high. Apparently they explode, showering the plastic kitchen floor with bits of burning tablet, at which point obviously you have to throw lots of water on the floor and go and watch TV.
And I used to be so careful to hide the bloody matches!
( The Cat's Mother Not a People Person., Tue 8 Nov 2005, 22:35, Reply)