Another story from the "Dumbass" files, me.

[Brian37]

Leaving the gloves on the stove and then turning it on isn't a klutz thing...it's a not paying attention thing.  Now your ADD is costing you money and could have cost you your home and your life.

But that didn't happen. 

Again, you are blowing this way out of proportion. 

Nothing would have gotten out of control considering I was sitting right next to it awake. I never leave the stovetop unattended. People cook things all the time and face away from the stovetop while preparing things and or watching tv. Pretty sure everyone reading this has accidently burned food, or let the pot boil over. 

There is absolutely nobody reading this that doesn't have accidents. 

Now if you want to talk about serious risk, my late mother when I was a kid and teen used to smoke in bed, and I would constantly find her asleep with the cigarette having fallen out of the ashtray on the night stand. I finally put my foot down and yelled at her that she needed to stop doing that. She finally agreed to not smoke in bed and even went as far as to only smoke outside.

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And if you must know, I never cook with oil ever. Some people are comfortable with doing that, but not me.