On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Andrew Gabriel wrote :
Many years ago when my grandparents were still around, we were
all at my parents for Christmas. One grandmother went off into
the kitchen to make a cake. Mum poped in to the kitchen just as
grandmother was sifting 4oz of dishwasher detergent into the
butter and flour... Claimed it was the only sugar she could find!

I (from my 26th floor flat) went down to our postroom to collect my
mail, leaving my mum (staying with me a few weeks) making breakfast.
Came back to find the smoke detector sounding and my mum attacking one
of the sprinklers with the mop. Fortunately she didn't set it off or it
would have been a minor flood and something like a A$1000 charge from
the fire brigade for an unnecessary callout.

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