Saturday Sucked

[Drgon63]

Let me say this as a disclaimer: I am grateful for all i have and everyone and everything around me....!

Saturday morning getting ready for work, beautiful morning figured i would take the bike to work, walk out to shed on way out smell something burning???? get bike out of shed start her up headlight not working... well got a couple of minutes before work, probably the fuse will check it out when i get to work, use driving lights no problem, swing bike around our motor home light catches black smoke coming from the coach hurry get off bike and open coach door, SMOKE rolls out... slam door call fire dept..... feels like it takes forever for them to get here, actually only minutes.... they go inside and say the fire burned itself out but did extensive damage, after they determined it was out they showed me the inside.... the whole inside is crispy to say the least... the fire never burned through the shell just smoldered inside they say for hours building heat.... melted the microwave oven glass, the TV screens and the light bulbs look like something from Van-go....Fire marshal comes and cannot determine where it started but somewhere he found some bare wires... don't know gotta wait for the report for that.....in the middle of all this my wife calls from Florida to wish me a good morning on my way to work as normal and i have to tell her the news.... boy was she upset....She was coming home Sunday, said she would be home early... i told her there was nothing she could do so take her time 1 additional day was not gonna do anything to help the situation ( SHE SAID SHE WAS WORRIED ABOUT ME...) finally get done with all the Fire dept , the fire marshal and the insurance stuff... call work not coming in, that was no problem under the circumstances... stop moving for a while figure im home im depressed and will take my aggression out on getting my 66 ford polished.....WRONG!!!! polish right through the paint......they say all things good and bad come in 3s... i believe someone was telling me something on Saturday that's for sure..

Now the grateful part of the whole story....

1. No one was hurt...!

2 My wife wanted to use the Motor home to go to Fla for the week... just got a new radiator for it... had not gotten it in yet so that sorta shot that down, then she finds out she could not have brought it anyway as the biggest they could fit was a 28 footer ours is 36....she and her 2 girlfriends could and would have possibly been in it when this happened.

3 The Motor home was about 8 feet or less from the shed which had my motorcycle in it, the chief of the FD said if it had gotten out the shed probably would have gone also....

4 The motor home is also only about 10 ft or so from the house. Again could have taken house also....

5 it was only the fuse in the headlight

6 the ford is now root beer and waiting for a new clear coat....

Gotta say being a fireman for 20 years on long island, you try and console people who have had things like this happen by sayin, no one got hurt, or it can be replaced, etc etc trying to make them feel better, when the shoe is on the other foot... it really don't make it feel any better....sometime life throws you some curve ball...

So all in all everyone is safe... my wife is back home....our family is all good.... so Saturday may have sucked , but LIFE IS GOOD

Sorry for the long read.....may all of you and yours all be safe, happy and healthy....

Tom

[Jon Cole]

Tom, crappy situation, but you do have a good attitude about it. Hope it all works out for you somehow. Maybe new(er) RV in your future?

[Agent G]

Look at it as a sign.

I had to take a day off once as my son suddenly became so ill we had to see the doctor. He's ok, I'm frazzled, then the phone rings.

My partner was transported to the ER after a horrific accident. The other family was transported as well, and both the police car and the other car were totalled.

The accident investigator from the Traffic Div. who handled the scene, as it was really touch and go for a bit, told me if I had been in the car riding shotgun I'd be dead. As it was Tim retired less than a year later due to injuries.

Hey, it's a sign.

G

[crazyjim]

I love stories with happy ending.

There is some sorta bad news. It's Monday! WWE Monday Night Raw, Gearz, and Dancing with the Stars are all on at the same time. We don't have one of those gizmo things to record a station while watching another. I'm going to opt to watch DWTS because Katherine Jenkins will be on. She has such a great voice and certainly isn't hard to look at. And there's Karina and Anna.

[trogdor]

Things can be replaced, people not so much. Glad nobody was hurt or worse.

[TurboKitty]

I'm sorry to hear about what happened, but to agree with trogdor, thankfully material items can be replaced. There are ups and downs in life and luckily nobody was hurt. Don't let it get you down, and you'll see that things almost always have a way of working themselves out Good luck and take care!