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lil  ·  3471 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Emotional Scars of Hubski

Why are you afraid of fire?





caelum19  ·  3471 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So I live in Rainsville, Pouringland, Wetia and we're not used to sun. When we do get it, people get surn burnt, bush fires go out of control and the sun can even be something that gets complained about.

Think it was 2009, maybe 2010 and it had been sunny the past few weeks. I was having lots of fun catching fire to stuff, because fire's awesome. When I found a patch of this weird, extremely dry, extremely thin film-like bush that cought fire very well. I wanted lots of it of course!

But it was full of spiders, and I'm terrified of spiders. So I thought it would be a good idea to 'smoke them out' by lighting fire to the bush, and then kicking it out.

Kicking it out wasn't very effective, it just spread the fire to other parts of the bush, this is where my little brother gets scared and goes running about 100m home to ask our parents for help. I didn't want to get it trouble, so I yelled at him not to. Thankfully he didn't listen, because that fire was spreading fast, and about 10 metres away was a extremely massive, overcrowded pine forest.

My dad had stopped most of the bush fires with a shovel, but one fire had made it's way to a tree, and about 30% of it burned before it went out for whatever reason. These trees are very close together so if that fire had engulfed the tree, I would have been in much bigger trouble.

Parents wouldn't talk to me for 2 days, I felt terrible, the spiders probably felt a lot worse, haven't lit a fire since.

thenewgreen  ·  3471 days ago  ·  link  ·  

When my uncle, Pablo was about 12 years old he was playing with the woodstove in my grandparents home. Somehow, he ended up burning half of their house down. Now he's a fireman

Who knows, maybe you'll be a fireman someday..... Or an arachnologist.

caelum19  ·  3471 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha. One of the fire men who came up after my parents called said they burnt down their house, but I thought it was made up to make me feel better.

Being a fireman doesn't sound very appealing, an arachnologist sounds even more unappealing. But like you said, who knows.