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Very Short Story Contest
Post in the comments section a guess as to how, exactly, I set my iPod on fire. Here are your clues: it still works, it didn't happen at my apartment, it was playing Iron & Wine's Our Endless Numbered Days when the damage occurred, I suffered small 2nd degree burns on one of my fingers, and the damage went beyond just my iPod.
Everybody who participates will receive, via email, the real story of what happened. That means that if you don't have a blogger account you need to put your email address in with your version of events. Let's see if fact is stranger than fiction :-)
7 comments:
I think you were cooking a lobster and the lobster freaked out causing you to knock a roll of paper towels onto an open burner. Then your elbow knocked over a pot and the fire spread to the counter where you IPOD was innocently sitting. The fire got to spreading around the kitchen a little, injuring your poor hand in the process.
I believe that you were boiling a chicken when the pot tipped over by your hand hitting it. While attempting to light a hookah. So for dinner that night you had chicken and boiled Ipod.
you hooked it up without adjusting the voltage? this is the most reasonable response. there are no lobsters in china.
I see you sitting somewhere nice with a blanket and a small fire.The fire starts burn low,starting to go out a little. You have alitte bit of knidle and a bottle of lighter fluid for quick jump start. You over pour causeing a small fire.
You were listening to your music too loud, like many people do, as you walked down a side walk crowded with people and hot barrels of fire used to cook the living hell out of some eggs. Thumbing and bumping to the beat of the music, you became completly unware of the angry voices and the broken beer bottle being waved in front of someone's face just a few shops down. Too concered with their own business, they didn't notice you at all. As you got in range of the fight a dead uncooked chicken with it's head still intact(you are in China after all) flew out of the shop's front door and collided with the side of your face. In a mix of pain and disgust, your body did a remarkable 360 causing your Ipod to dislodge from your pocket. Disoriented, but aware of your Ipod's absence, you watched as a scene from a very bad Hollywood movie unravelled in front of you. Your Ipod flew with much grace, but couldn't avoid the egg barrel of certain firey doom. You rushed over to the barrel and reached in for you Ipod, but it was too hot and cinched the tips of your fingers. Ouch!Ouch!Ouch! You watched as the white plastic began to melt and began to panic, but then you did what had to be done. You kicked the barrel of firey egg goodness over and all of its contents, including the fire, crashed directly into the shop where the angry voices were still emerging. And then for a second there was silence. And then more screaming. About 3 or 4 people came running out with welts on their bodies, assumingly from the firey coals. In doing so they kicked your Ipod free and you had it back in your possession. Neither of you had escaped the fray undamaged. Your head hurt and your poor Ipod smelled of burnt plastic, but you were happy that you both were in working order. You plugged the Ipod back into the ear phones and started thumping and bumping to the beat of the music as you continued to walk down the stree.
oh geez... more proof we are related
You were listening to "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred and your Ipod attempted suicide as best it knew how.
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