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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 17, 2017 at 10:56 pm
(August 17, 2017 at 8:44 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Here's a conundrum:
If your house catches fire, do you release the hostages in your basement, knowing they'll run to the authorities, or do you let them perish knowing the fire investigators will find their bodies eventually anyway?
This is, of course, a trick question. You don't keep hostages at your house at all.
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 12:27 am
OH !!!
Jesus Fucking Christ !!!!
I forgot my restored and working HP70 calculator !!! OHMIGOD, sorry kitty, you can be replaced at the shelter easier than I can get another one of those !!!
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 12:34 am
A water bottle, my meds, and my fanny pack (right here with me as we speak).
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 1:17 am
When I was a teenager, my parent's house caught on fire upstairs whilst I was asleep downstairs.
Nobody else was home. Apparently the smoke inhalation kept me asleep.
I was woken by somebody who was driving by and noticed the house on fire. They had to kick the door in and half drag me outside.
Needless to say, I grabbed nothing.
I was standing out the front with just me unddies on, watching the house burn down.
My rescuer left the scene and I never got to thank him/her.
After the fire brigade left I was sitting out the back, grieving for my little terrier, Brutus.
I assumed he was gone but it turned out he was round at the corner shop, scratching on the front door and waking the owners, trying to get help.
When he finally turned up, despite the house tragedy, I was overcome with joy.
Funnily enough, the next day my parents won $50 000 bucks on the lotto. True story.
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 2:53 am
My gal, my guitar (the acoustic, the electric will meet its fate), and my wallet.
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 5:07 am
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The brown trout first, then the wife, shove 'em both in the ol' mustang and way we go! Insurance money here we come!
The wife will no doubt say her big rock first (don't have separate insurance for it!), then the little brown turd, then her Jimmy Choo shoes. She won't worry about me because she knows I've got McGyver skillz!.
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 7:01 am
(August 17, 2017 at 10:43 pm)Tres Leches Wrote: My kid and the box with our family's photos.
Screw saving photos on the cloud, I print mine out. And some are from the 19th century.
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If you'd have put them on the cloud back then they'd still be safe!
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 8:01 am
Phone and headphones so I can rock out to slayer as I watch everything else burn to the ground. And wallet I guess.
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 9:44 am
My partner, her kid, and the cat.
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RE: If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?
August 18, 2017 at 9:54 am
Since the question is asking about things I'd grab I'll assume we're not talking about living beings.
Pants so I'm not stood out there naked waiting for the fire brigade.
Phone, it's always useful.
My home computer, it's expensive and useful.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
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