If Your House Caught Fire, what are the First 3 Things You'd Grab On Your Way Out?

[CapnAwesome]

Rules are rules. I know it sucks, in a Sophie's Choice kind of way, but you must choose.

Which cat do you love least?  

I've done the impossible before, so confidence is high.

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Computer

Smartphone

Anything else I store pornography on.

Must be some really good/unique porn. Gay walrus furry sex?

Many many videos of me having sex with your mother.

[Neo-Scholastic]

I don't think I value any material possession, no matter how sentimental, enough to risk my life for it., but I would probably try to grab a pair of pants on the way out, hopefully the one with my wallet in it.

[chimp3]

If the people and dog are out then my financial/ nurse education records. I have to be able to prove to the state board of nursing that I have 14 hours of accredited continuing education hours yearly for five years back. It would be a RPIA to find records for all of those.

Willie Nelson tells a story of a house fire his family suffered. He was recording in Nashville and his son called to say his home in Whitehouse Tennessee was on fire. Willie asked if they got the car out of the garage. His son confirmed that they did. Willie told him to drive the car back into the garage. It took Willie 20 minutes to get home. The house was in full blaze. He rushed past the firefighters and ran into the blazing home. People tried to stop him. Willie came running out with two guitar cases. One contained his trusty guitar "Trigger" the other case two pounds of Columbian Gold. I only include this anecdote to point out that one of the three things you grab may be something you bring into the fire.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've done the impossible before, so confidence is high.

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Must be some really good/unique porn. Gay walrus furry sex?

Many many videos of me having sex with your mother.

You have my sympathy. But if necrophilia is your thing...

[CapnAwesome]

Many many videos of me having sex with your mother.

You have my sympathy. But if necrophilia is your thing...

I didn't say it was recently shot.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You have my sympathy. But if necrophilia is your thing...

I didn't say it was recently shot.

And?

[Astreja]

Assuming my daughter is already safely out of the house, I'd first grab the bright red Important Papers folder at the front of the file box in my office.

Exiting the office, I'd pause at the bookcase and liberate a hardcover copy of The Soulforge by Margaret Weis (a book that's always the first thing I pack when I move house, and which has made the jump with me 3 times since I bought it in 1998).

Finally, at the bottom of the staircase by the front door, I'd grab the knapsack where I keep my main clarinet Clara III.

[vorlon13]

I didn't mention Primary Cat since he most likely would be in the main bathroom and from outside, I can break the window and retrieve him.

In Real Life, I have already been thru this (when I was living in a motel during my first year of sobriety) and it turns out I grabbed my key, wallet and bathrobe. And yes, I slept in the nude in that time frame and the bathrobe was it for clothing upon my person.

As it developed, the fire was the main attention draw and I was not a spectacle, or more accurately, an object of prurient allurement and depravity.

Sadly, and I can relate to Willie wanting a particular car back in the garage, my dreadful piece of shit Ford Mustang was literally the closest car to the fire that was not incinerated. It was damaged (cosmetic) and was covered with weird big chunks of ash or something.

Amazing to note, the fire, while confined to a single building, was in the parking lot of a square block development of 2 restaurants, meeting hall, convenience/gas station, hair salon, and some other businesses and a parking lot that covered every speck of open ground all around, garnered sufficient water from the fire department to flood the parking lot to at least 6" deep !!

[The Valkyrie]

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.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Assuming my daughter is already safely out of the house, I'd first grab the bright red Important Papers folder at the front of the file box in my office.

Exiting the office, I'd pause at the bookcase and liberate a hardcover copy of The Soulforge by Margaret Weis (a book that's always the first thing I pack when I move house, and which has made the jump with me 3 times since I bought it in 1998).

Finally, at the bottom of the staircase by the front door, I'd grab the knapsack where I keep my main clarinet Clara III.

I have a fire-proof safe. One less thing to worry about.