I caught my house on fire with my space heater.
Well, I guess I didn’t actually catch my house on fire, but my space heater did.
I knew that I should not have been using a space heater in my old house. I planned to only use it for a few hours before I went to bed just to warm up my bedroom a little bit. Even though it is July, it gets pretty chilly in my room at night. It doesn’t help that the two roommates that I have love keeping the house nice and chilly during the day. They have the thermostat set to sixty-five during the day. We turn the air conditioning off at night, but it still stays pretty cool in the house. Outside, it gets down to around sixty degrees at night. It is just too cold for me. I grew up down south, and I just can’t take the cool weather very well. I decided to start using a space heater in my bedroom a few hours before I went to bed, and I was convinced that I would never forget to turn the space heater off. Well, I did good for about three weeks; then, I forgot. I left the space heater on all night long, and I ended up being late for work the next morning, so I forgot to turn it off before I left for work. It ended up melting the outlet and then catching my room on fire somehow. The fire spread through most of the house before the fire department was able to put it out. Needless to say, I will never use a space heater again.
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