Have you ever seen a FIMMpersonator?
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Hi, JoJo! I’m glad that FIMM is active and doing well. You’ll have to write about his children, and if they have the FIM problem too. What about FIMM’s wife?
This reminded me of an incident last month, when I really stuck my foot in my mouth! I posted it on my blog, but it got me laughing again, so I thought that I would share.
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Okay, here I am sharing one of my most ridiculous moments with the whole wide web community. Thankfully, I’m hidden behind my monitor screen so that you can’t see me blush.Yesterday evening, while my husband & our children (actually our adult daughter & 5-year old son,) were returning from a hike, they designated me to start our outdoor bar-b-que in order to grill some steaks. All I had to do was light the coals so that they would be ready to cook once our family returned home. Sounds simple, right?
As my DH & I hadn’t grilled in years, I took the time to read the instructions on the back of the charcoal bag and some of the cookbook which came with the grill. I knew NOT to add lighter fluid to the coals as they were the self-starting kind. I learned that once they were lit, that I had to wait until the flames died down & the coals turned white before placing on the steaks.
Okay, so I did as instructed. What I didn’t expect was, at the touch of the match, a HUGE fire instantly mushroomed right in front of my face! Terrified, my first thought returned to my dear heart, “He’s going to kill me if I burn down our [recently purchased] house!” This was just great! :(
Next door I saw our new neighbors talking in their backyard. The husband & his friend were on their deck.
“Hello….?” I started out in order to get their attention. “Hello….?” I tried again. No luck. They glanced over and then returned to their men talk. Thinking of our home, our trees, and the fire, I shouted, “Fire! I need help!”
I’m telling you, there’s nothing that grabs attention like someone shouting “Fire!” at the top of their lungs. The men instantly scaled our fence and were on our deck, moving the grill away from the house, and attempting to tell me that this was normal and that the flames would settle down. I’m sure that I looked terrified as I could barely talk my face was frozen so. I explained that my husband was away, and if they would mind staying until the flames were under control.
They did.
The steaks turned out delicious. It was our first evening to eat out on the deck, beneath the aspens.
I cringe at the thought of what our new neighbors must be thinking! This family only moved in next door 2 days ago. Talk about making an impression!
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Oh Catherine, I remember reading this on your blog! Very scary, but you are right. There is nothing like yelling FIRE for getting people’s attention!
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JoJo,
I"m sure I have been like Fimm more times than I remember:-)
A couple of weeks ago, my daughter was telling me that one of her friends wanted to meet some of her other friends. My comment was “what friends?” Well, she gave me this look and we both roared with laughter. I meant to say “which friends” but by switching that one word (which to what) it had quite a different meaning.
We still laugh about it now.
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I don’t know if this is FIMM or not but a few weeks back our 6 year old daughter was beginning to recognize she had some things in common with her dad…they both liked certain foods and a certain kind of weather, etc. She looked up excitedly and said “Daddy, we must have the same pants!”. She had heard us talking about people with the same genes liking similar things and in her head, she heard jeans so it was natural to switch the word to pants. We were laughing so hard and she was looking at us like we were crazy. What had she said that was so funny? We explained it to her and she laughed too. She of course tried to reenact the joke several times after that because it was so funny the first time…not so much the second, third, fourth or fifth time. It still brings a smile though.