The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Better than diesel

the diesel has to be more of a bang... mine was just smoky and flame-y

 

[hennible]

No bang just liquid fire on and running off the woodstove... Smelled Great

 

[drumstick diva]

Hennible I think our fathers were brothers by different mothers. My father also used to pick up garbage in the woods and bring home his treasures. He found rusted coffee can with corroded pennies inside. He tried to use bleach to clean them off - didn't work, so then he poured muriatic acid on top. The fumes gave him a severe coughing spell. I told him to go outside because it would damage his lungs. He refused, so I grabbed my son and we both went out for quite some time.

He was watching tv coughing and choking when we got back inside. I opened all the windows then checked out the combination (bleach + muriactic acid) on google. Very dangerous combination. My dad was educated to be a chemist but knowledge never stopped him.

Oh another time he brought home a filthy picnic cooler that stunk up the whole house. It was half filled with apparently, human waste. I went ballistic and told him to get that crap out of the house. He said he'd clean it up with bleach later. NO!! Why on earth would someone want that when we had 3 perfectly good Rubbermaid coolers at home This was long before doctors thought he had dementia. I think he was born with it.

Okay one more short one, I came home to him trying to fry something in an aluminum foil pie pan- on the stove, so he didn't have to wash out a pan.

 

[vehve]

Diva, that sounds scary. Especially the bleach and acid part.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Dinner and a show - how cool is that?

The spaghetti squash was entertaining, but after scraping it off of the floor, and the ceiling, and the inside of the microwave, there wasn't enough "yellow silly string" to eat.

Did you know a squash can blow a microwave door open?

We get grain mites on occasion here when it gets really humid and hot in the summer (so, almost never).

The last time we got them they were all over the kitchen counter and in a cup of pens by the refrigerator. I threw all the pens out but wanted to keep the highlighter (it was the only one I had). I figured I would microwave the highlighter for about 30 seconds and kill the little buggers and not damage the highlighter in the process. I was wrong.

A few seconds into the cycle the highlighter exploded (as I suppose the grain mites did too). It looked like someone had filled the microwave with silly string.

It was a lot to clean up.

In retrospect, it was kinda fun.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Did anyone else get bumped off of BYC this morning? I guess if you did, you wouldn't be able to comment yet.

When I went online this morning, I wasn't logged in and it wouldn't accept my password so I had to reset it but that took a while because I have a different e-mail.
So 3 hours later I was finally able to log on. I bet you're all thrilled about that.

 

[drumstick diva]

BYC working well here, knock on wood!

 

[ronott1]

Did anyone else get bumped off of BYC this morning? I guess if you did, you wouldn't be able to comment yet.

When I went online this morning, I wasn't logged in and it wouldn't accept my password so I had to reset it but that took a while because I have a different e-mail.
So 3 hours later I was finally able to log on. I bet you're all thrilled about that.

I got on BYC at 7:20am pacific time. It has been fine this morning.

 

[hennible]

@drumstick diva
My dad did lots of those things and he was an intelligent guy I swear... But always had to fight everything out for himself.
One story that I don't remember it happened before my time was him trying to stop fiberglass resin from setting by putting it in the fridge and it made everything in the fridge taste like fiberglass resin...
My one sister still can't eat Nanimo bars...

 

[bamadude]

My great grandfather had bad eyesight. He once poured a quart of fruit coctail into his car where the oil is supposed to go