House on fire

I'm of the opinion that there's a mystery in the way food gets burnt even when the person is seated close to the cooking gas. How? Read on.

The day (Thursday) had me fully concentrated on my offline work. I got into it as early as possible to make use of the sunshine. Yes, it was laundry work. I kicked against breakfast because I didn't have any prepared food, and if I needed to take breakfast, that would mean preparing something to eat, which would waste a lot of time. So, I decided to get into the work first, finish it, and then settle down to eat. But little did I know that the heap of clothes wasn't the way I saw it earlier—the clothes were much more than I thought. And even though I used a washing machine to run through all of them, they still chopped off a lot of my time when I had to pick them one after the other to check for deeply dirtied spots.

I was finally through around 1 p.m. and decided to prepare beans to eat. I knew it was going to take time, but I was also ready to increase the cooking gas to a high intensity to make it cook faster.

Trust me, I did just that. And towards the last phase—the final minutes on the cooking gas—I decided to leave it for some minutes while I picked up my phone to check on Hive. Before I knew it, I heard a bang on my door with a masculine voice screaming my name:

"Kingsley!!! Are you asleep? Look at smoke everywhere and the burnt scent everywhere!"

OMG! I screamed and rushed to the kitchen, which was just three steps away, to turn off the gas, and hey, everywhere was filled with smoke and the strong smell of burnt food.

Ashamed, I couldn't even go and meet the person that came to knock on my door because I knew the person would laugh at me very badly.

I just stayed there wondering: how did the food I was cooking get burnt within just a few seconds of my decision to get on my phone? I was inside the house and still didn't notice the smoke that filled the room nor the smell that circulated everywhere. And it’s not like I was asleep. How?

Everything just appeared magical to me. If it were some people, they would have concluded that it was witches in their village that sent arrows to set the house on fire. Lol.

*Photo: MetaAi