Et tu, Conair?

[cleolinda]

"I'm going out to buy a hair dryer," announces my mother. "Be right back."

"Did the old one break?"

"Well, it caught on fire."

"WHAT? WHEN?"

"Just now. Yeah. Six-inch flames shooting out the back. Good thing I was almost done anyway."

The icon is a fairly good approximation of my face at that moment.

Comments

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

O.o

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

[elbales]

YAY MORE MACROS

Srsly. God? NOW YOU'RE JUST GETTIN' SILLY.

[glenvorian.livejournal.com]

[laerwen.livejournal.com]

...

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

Good thing you didn't work on the Large Hadron Collider or anything and open up a black hole...

[eros-ion.livejournal.com]

I think that vampire dark matter would still sparkle.

[flamingtoilet.livejournal.com]

4 more days... 4 more days...

[arielchan.livejournal.com]

I do not know how this shit happens to you guys. o_o

[chocotaku.livejournal.com]

GREMLINS.

[glass-radical.livejournal.com]

whaaaaaat.

[bella-stella78.livejournal.com]

Wow, do you guys need to stay away from electrical appliances or what?

I found this article about the whole "Watchmen" delay, and I'm half convinced you've already been sent it about 5,000 times, but just in case:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/fox-can-eat-several-dicks/

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Even the URL for that link cracks me up.

[gwynevere1.livejournal.com]

You sure the hairdryer wasn't just doing its Anger!Galadriel impersonation in sympathy?

[sachielle.livejournal.com]

Wow. You're appliances must have joined a technological rebellion led by unionized androids. You should talk to Shaenon K. Garrity about this. I hear she has some experience on matters such as these.

[bienegold.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of that one ep of Futurama where all the robots run amok.

"OUT OF COFFEE" *2nd degree burns*

[joaniemaloney.livejournal.com]

haha, oh dear.

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

I love your Mom :)

[toritoribird.livejournal.com]

That just reminded me of the time my brother's XBox caught on fire and he got mad at me when I dumped water on it because he didn't save his game first....

[akathorne.livejournal.com]

Your house DID hear me! And tried to kill your mom! Oh noooooo!

...it may be time to check into exorcism.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT

(Can you recommend anyone?)

[wildagain.livejournal.com]

You seem to have extraordinarily bad luck with appliances.

[vkitty.livejournal.com]

My mom's blowdryer spat a shard of metal at her neck. She still has a minor scar from it.

(If we're sharing stories.)

[sweet-pessimism.livejournal.com]

D: D: D:

*puts hair dryer under lock and key*

[kirsdarke.livejournal.com]

Your mom is awesome.

[bright-blonde.livejournal.com]

thats just great. you made my day.

[chorusgirl.livejournal.com]

Schadenfreude?

[calliopes_pen]

Our vacuum cleaner does that. It's a bit terrifying, but it's over 30 years old.

[eros-ion.livejournal.com]

My sister's almost 30. I think she might start doing that soon.

[krazycat.livejournal.com]

..yeah, 2008 really does hate you guys. That's scary.

[entropy-and-me.livejournal.com]

My mom had this same problem once, although I don't remember the brand of hair dryer. I just remember she came to me holding it and asked "Does your hair dryer ever spit sparks at you?" It was sort of like, "does yours have that feature, too, or did I just buy the upgraded one?" I assured her that was probably a sign of the end of the hair dryer's life cycle.

[thefireisblack.livejournal.com]

2008 is still taking shots isn't it?

I still love how your mother was so calm.

But still...WTF?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Are we sure that someone in your family hasn't accidentally desecrated the grave of Thomas Edison or some similar affront in the last, oh, calendar year? I'm not sure if repentance or bunkering down for the next, oh, four days is the proper mindset. Perhaps a sacrificial offering, mayhap the toaster, to Tesla, mad god of the electric arc.

My only other advice would be to lead a steampunk existence for the rest of the year, just to play it safe, but it sounds like you're well on your way already.

[allichaton.livejournal.com]

Six...inch...flames... 0.0

I am amazed at how cool your mom seems about this. If an appliance that I was holding in my hand, inches from my head, suddenly started spewing six inch flames, I think my gut reaction would be to throw the thing across the room and scream myself hoarse.

[smadronia.livejournal.com]

I used to think that too. And then my video card caught fire in my computer as I was 2 feet from it, and all I could think was "so that's why the screen went plaid!" then it devolved into "that was awesome in a totally wtf sort of way."