As soon as I saw this prompt, a story came to mind that happened to me when I was around fifteen years old.
So in basic terms, I failed at making toast or more precisely I tried to make cheese on toast and I’m still not a hundred percent sure what happened but I put the toast in the oven and after a little while…the toast burst into flames.
I was home alone and it was the first time I’d seen anything being set alight on accident before, so I panicked and rushed over to my neighbours to ask for help as well and calling up my parents.
I also grabbed the dog, who had no clue what was going on, since I didn’t want him close to the fire.
Now you’d hope, they’d actually go into the house and help me but no… for some reason they decided it was best to take Albee, our dog, upstairs in their house, too calm him down and I’m pretty sure that’s all they did.
My mum came home and raced into the house, to check the fire and she sorted everything out, basically moving the toast, that had been on a tray into the garden and letting it cool outside. The fire, that hadn’t been that big in the first place, went out eventually and nothing, apart from my toast, was really burnt, even the oven had remained okay.
My mum was upset with our neighbours though, since they hadn’t done anything about the fire.
I was a shaken up but also a bit embarrassed at making a fuss over something that could have been sorted out so easily. My mum invited me to come out and eat with my Dad and their friends, though it had meant to be an adult night out but she knew that I was a bit shocked over what had happened and said some food would cheer me up and also assured fifteen year old me that had been also panicked at getting into trouble, that she wasn’t upset about it and that I’d done a good thing by taking the dog out of the house.
While it wasn’t funny at the time, looking back at it, it’s quite funny that I somehow set fire to something as simple as toast, my cooking skills are fantastic, aren’t they? But makes me even more grateful for how my Mums helped me out over the years and even now while I am in my late twenties, thank you Mum ❤
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