Too late - It's my Mom! 
2003 Reader Submission
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After reading some of the personal submissions I thought you might be interested in a couple of classics that my mother did during my youth.
One night about 20 years ago I had gone to bed and not long afterwards I was woken by the sound of a loud explosion. My bedroom door had flown open and the curtains had flown out the (luckily) open window. I rushed downstairs just in time to see my mom exit from the kitchen, smoke rising from her head where a full head of hair should have been! She seemed more dazed that injured so I sat her down and went into the kitchen. Yes, it looked like a small bomb had gone off, the net curtains were a pile of melted nylon and the cotton curtains were still on fire. I put them out with a few glasses of water and returned to mom to find out what happened. It still makes me smile when I recall her account!
Well, she says, I thought that the kitchen was a little smelly so I got out the areosol air freshner. When I tried to use it nothing came out but I knew something was in it because I could hear it when I shook the can. So, I thought I'd open it with the can opener and sprinkle some of the contents around. DOH! Of course as soon as the can opener 'bit', the ensuing rush of propellent made her jump back, throwing the can in the air. It landed on the gas stove where the pilot light did the rest.
The second story is from around the same time. I came home from school one day and mom tells me that the vacum cleaner was broken. She had been using it when she went too far from the power outlet, tugged on the cable and the wires pulled from the plug. She says "I opened the plug and put the wires back but it still doesn't work". I opened the plug to find all three wires twisted together and inserted into one pin! Luckily for her she had chosen the neutral and not the live. For those of you that understand these things, had she chosen the live pin, the whole cleaner would have been live waiting for a route to earth - mom trying the foot switch (UK-240V!)!
Guess I got my dad's genes... Submitted on 09/11/2003
Submitted by:
mick
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