Elizabeth was cooking pasta on the stove and a bunch spilled underneath the burner. She left it and her sister Alecia saw the pasta burning a bit so removed the pot of pasta, turned off that burner and tried to cool it down by blowing on it and waving the wooden spoon at it. It caught fire, a foot tall.

We all see it and start screaming. Julie and I are running around screaming "What do we do?? What do we do??" while Alecia keeps blowing on it like the Big Bad Wolf which made it bigger.

I finally get the idea "Get a pot lid!!" so I run to my room frantically to get one (my cooking stuff is in a box) and Julie didn't know what to do so she followed me. Alecia is in the kitchen trying to find lids and can't find one.

By the time I get back into the kitchen with my spiffy lid Alecia had thrown water over the fire and it went out instantly. The dorm was filled with smoke. As we opened the windows and door I tell them "The smoke detector didn't go off. If that fire wasn't contained in the stove burner, we'd all die!" and just then it went off and was ridiculously loud.

Now we're all joking about how we all handled it. They teased how if a building was on fire I'd grab a lid and be like "I'll save you!!!!". We're teasing how Alecia thinks she's the Big Bad Wolf, how Elizabeth can't pour pasta into a giant pot, and how Julie runs away when frightened.

Hoo boy, I feel so alive now. *shakes in my chair*

Alecia's telling me how when I went to my room to get the lid she was like "Where are you going?!?! Don't leave me alone with the fire!"

Now I want a t-shirt with a picture of me holding a lid saying "I'll save you!" Julie also suggested "All this for a pot of noodles".