When there´s a big problem I never think in the moment.

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I have been pondering about all the easy things I could have done instead of behaving like a dumb old lady at the time of the fire. Even movies and serials give you ideas and our basic knowledge of chemistry could help us too. today, as I closed my eyes again and visualized alll that happened yesterday, I knew that if I had only thought abough getting a couple of blankets and rugs out of my closet and thrown them over the fire, maybe I would not even have needed the aid of the firemen. And the smell would not be so bad because I am sure that that smell comes from many burned plastic things that could have been spared. I learned when I was a child that a fire could be turned off by just stopping oxigen (air) from coming in. A rug or thick blanket would have helped. But as there was smoke I opened doors and windows. DUMB!!! @shaggin wrote to me that she had 2 extinguishers as the insurance money was less if she had them. But she also told me that she did not know how to use them. Dear lotters, I would not know how to use them either. But now I will buy one and I will learn how to use them. You never know. When I was young I learnt that I had to stay by the stove when I has heating milk. One look in the wrong direction and the milk would spill. Now I learned that if I am cooking, I AM COOKING! PERIOD! It is either gardening or heating a pot. I am telling you this because I would not want you to have this happen to you.