How to meet your neighbours
Sunday, 12 April 2009
I am just coming down from the past hour's great excitement. Three fire engines and an extra one with a massive, stabilised ladder appeared outside a neighbouring flat. Our boys chose the wrong day not to be here, so of course we videoed it. I met one of the mums from school who happened to be passing, and compared notes on potential catastrophes from the upstairs neighbour.
Bobo stood filming and a passing student said, "look, he's filming it, how cool is he?" Of course he grinned smugly at me and I wanted to tell her it was all my idea really.
For some reason, passersby kept coming up and asking me what had happened. Of course I didn't have a clue, so I made stuff up, like, "oh, there's someone on the roof, hence the ladder," or "there's been a gas leak, that's obvious to me." One woman said she was sorry that someone's flat was on fire and I realised I had an empathy bypass and was caught up in the excitement of all the ladders. Yesterday, I even got excited when my bread making yeast rose, so you can imagine what I made of tonight's excitement.
It turned out to be a false alarm, but not before I offered to pass around hot drinks and light snacks to curious onlookers. I was just waiting for Spiderman to appear, but he never did.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 10:28:00 PM
Eeeeh - a bit of drama! Glad noone was hurt so the whole ladder thing could be enjoyed guilt free. Are we still on for Thursday?
Monday, April 13, 2009 9:15:00 AM
Clearly someone had borrowed the fire engine ladder to break through the roof, get down to the post office and raid the safe. A crowbar might have been slightly less conspicuous....
Monday, April 13, 2009 10:04:00 AM
A passing young female student, that is. And me wearing my slippers too!
Also, false alarm sounds a bit strong as there was a strong smell of smoke up the whole street. That's not how we'll be presenting it to the boys, anyhow.
Yes, absolutely,QV, Thursday's a goer.
Monday, April 13, 2009 10:35:00 AM
All those firemen ...
Now if they'd been wearing kilts too ...
Monday, April 13, 2009 7:52:00 PM
I was Washer-Woman today! the most fun. If you think watching yeast rise is exciting you must try a power-washer!!
Monday, April 13, 2009 8:17:00 PM
Sounds more exciting than our Sunday!
I think the firemen wanted to make an appearance on your blog.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:41:00 AM
At least the trucks matched the kilts on MY firemen.
XO
WWW
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:04:00 PM
QV: Absolutely. Looking forward to Thursday.
Nick: You are more of a drama queen than me lol. Bet you're sorry you missed it.
McBobo: Aw, you were really flattered by that.
Liz: Kilted firemen, now there's an idea. What about the drafty ladders though?
You're right Liz, I MUST try a power washer. It's a shame we're not neighbours.
Angie: Firemen are secretly attention seekers. Otherwise how could they do their job?
WWW: Unfortunately, tangerine orange clashes violently with some skin tones. That's just how it is!