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BANG!

2007-04-27

Good morning Boys and Girls.

Wednesday afternoon, I'd just gotten home. I was hungry and started making some food right away.

One cup of rice, one and a half cups of water, a pinch of salt and a couple of drops of oil; turned up the burner.

Looked in the fridge to see what I'd add to the rice when it was done. Pulled out some celery, part of a red pepper, an onion and a jar of crushed garlic.

Brought it to a boil, covered it and turned the flame down as low as it'll go, and came down here to check email and the like while it cooked for twenty minutes or so.

Cat walked into the room to say hello, and jumped up on my lap. We relaxed for a minute or two and...

Bang!

Something had fallen HARD somewhere in the house. What the...?

Trying to imagine the direction the sound had come from, I started the search. Kitchen? Mmm. No. Nothing obvious. Living room. Nope. Garage? It is attached... maybe... nope. Upstairs, all three rooms. Nada. Hmmm.

The rice smelled done, checked it and turned it off. Spent another ten or fifteen minutes looking all over the place, I mean whatever it was made a LOUD noise. Surely...

Finally gave up and, and as the evening wore on, forgot about it. The rice was good. Caramelized the veggies and garlic in a hot skillet, then added the cooked rice for five or six minutes... spices... a little salt and a lot of pepper... Great.

Yesterday morning I went through two pots of coffee, spent another hour or so editing the story before I decided that the rain was NOT going to stop anytime soon and I might as well face it and get ready for work.

Stepped into the shower, and directly onto the plastic shower-stuff holder that had held my shampoo, razor, soap and my extra "shower" tooth brush I use when I'm really running late, that had been secured to the wall via suction cups...

...and I didn't get it right away...

About ten seconds elapsed between the time I bent over and started picking up all my stuff from the floor in the shower there and finally connecting it with the previous afternoon's "Bang!"


Be good to everyone.

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Barnabus (2007-04-27)
Jinxed! The other night, just went to bed and a rather loud bang in the bedroom, turned on light saw nothing so went to bed..Morning noticed my closet door opened..bunch of stuff fell off shelf and into the door..Solved!!

Doe (2007-04-27)
Something similar happened to me yesterday. I was in the basement doing laundry when I heard a thud, not a bang but, a thud. Anyway, I come upstairs to see what made the noise...I find nothing? Later I notice a picture frame that was sitting on the end table that had fallen over. I had scooted everything back so little britches wouldn't get a hold of it. I had the window open and I guess the wind blew it over. Not nearly as exciting as yours but...

figjam (2007-04-27)
That rice does sound good. You could also take a few things out of your shower caddy. It's probably extra heavy because you have as many items as a girl might have stuffed into it.

surrogate (2007-04-27)
That makes FAR too much sense. Thanks.

Bishop\'s Fantasy? (2007-04-27)
We put in a couple of screws just above the level of the shower enclosure on the back wall of the shower and hung ours that way - more room and it doesn't fall like that :)

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