Once the fire was out plus almost everyone calmed down we started thinking of how excruciating it could have been.
When I think of Thanksgiving I think of family plus memories, but every one of us have spent so many years gathering around the family table plus it has been some of the best times ever. As we reminisce each year we always bring up the year that Dad almost blew up the house. Yes, that is what I said, we entirely feared for our lives that day. Not only did he destroy the turkey that year he ruined the air handler outside too. He decided that he wanted to deep fry a turkey plus didn’t follow all of the directions. He overfilled the oil pot plus when he dropped the turkey in the oil that poured over the top burst into flames. If that had been it we could have endured it but it started a chain reaction of events that was nothing but frightening. The flames abruptly spread to the picnic table, chairs, plus bushes. Dad ran for the fire extinguisher but by the time he returned the air handler cover had melted too. It was made of difficult plastic plus the top of it was a mess. Once the fire was out plus almost everyone calmed down we started thinking of how excruciating it could have been. Every one of us ended up ordering Chinese for lunch that year plus Dad had to contact the Heating plus A/C corporation the next day to come give him an quote on fixing the Heating plus A/C unit. Thankfully the homeowners insurance paid for the repairs plus Dad gave up the system of deep frying a turkey ever again. Every one of us can laugh about this all these years later plus we have had many fantastic memories to replace that excruciating one.