Earlier this week the dryer died. Not a huge deal. We had purchased it in a pinch off of Craigslist for $50 almost as an afterthought a little over a year ago. It was a relatively simple fix (thermal fuse) but I thought this would be the opportunity to upgrade the dryer, which we had wanted to do anyway.
I came home Friday night to find the wife cleaning up the kitchen after the stove caught on fire and she used the fire extinguisher to put it out. This killed the stove and also put a layer of extinguisher powder on every single item in the kitchen, dining room, living room, back entry and hallway. Everything. Walls, baseboards, knick-knacks, pictures, everything. I thought this might be an opportunity to upgrade the stove, which we had wanted to do anyway. Which kinda sounded familiar.
...but exactly how did the stove catch on fire?
On Thursday night I came home from work late and the wife said there was pizza for dinner. I found a disappointing cheese-only pizza and scarfed what remained of it. I usually get a more substantial pizza, but I was hungry and didn't want to complain about not getting a more substantial pizza.
It turns out that a second more substantial pizza was actually in the oven, still in the box, on a very very low setting just to keep it warm due to my late arrival back home. Later that night the wife shut off the oven thinking I had feasted on a more substantial pizza.
Friday night came along, I was late again, and the wife pre-heated the oven to make dinner. She was not aware that the pizza, still in the box, was still in the oven. The boy soon alerted her to the smoking oven, she discovered a massive pizza-in-the-box fire within, and unleashed the powdery fury of our fire extinguisher upon it.
That was when the boy asked if the pizza was still ok to eat.
I came home a bit later, after the wife had already put a major dent into cleaning-up the devastation. "Hey honey, what's for dinner?" was somehow the exact wrong question to ask upon my late arrival.
We sent the boy off to his aunt's house, and commenced to a 5-hour cleaning marathon that lasted past 1am.
We now have a new used dryer rumbling away as we continue washing everything that was violated with fire extinguisher powder. We should have things cleaned-up pretty well by the time the new stove is delivered tomorrow. It's a decent stove, certainly an upgrade from our previous stove, which is what we wanted to do anyway.
