To Boy Scouts

So, Boy Scouts, I have some advice for all of you. Before I give you this advice I need to tell you all about a roommate whom I will just call J. Schwarting for now. Perhaps that's too obvious so I'll just call him Jeff S. Point is, he is my roommate, and there are some lessons tone learned from him.

Now that I think about it this more this is going to have to be a multi-part epistle. Today then I teach two important lessons by way of a story.

Jeff is the king of doing stupid stuff. Sometimes we, as Jeff's roommate, sometimes encourage him to do dumb stuff. One morning after about 14 minutes of being awake we talked him into deep frying a twinky and a marshmellow for breakfast. He filled the frying pan with oil and got started with heating it up. For some reason he wanted to check how hot the oil was by flicking a few drops of water in it. Well nothing happened and so Jeff thought that maybe he would check how hot it was by putting a quarter cup of water in it. Well, we all told him it was a bad idea (cuz we draw the line at arson) but he is a pretty stubborn kid. So he put the water in the hot oil. Guss what happened next... Yup. The oil popped and splashed onto our burner, catching fire. Then of course the oil in the pan caught fire. The flames were burning the ceiling. Smoke filled the apartment. We had ourselves a grease fire. By some crazy stoke of luck the fire only lasted like 15 seconds and somehow nothing got burned. However, there are burn marks on our ceiling and there was oil everywhere. Then we walked over and turned off the stove.

So that's the background. Lesson one, don't try to get your buddies who do dunh things to do dumb things. Lesson two- and listen to this all you Boy Scouts cuz I know you all like fire- don't put water in hot oil.

Pretty easy. Just don't do it.