Dads were Watching!
Jul. 3rd, 2022 06:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patchworkorangeLet me just start by saying: Jeremy loves his trucks. They are his "sexy bitches". SO....
We've been using his '87 Toyota 4x4 all weekend. This is a truck he was offered to purchase from my parents; he's lusted over this truck for years, it's been my step dad's, and he received it when his brother passed. They realized, at their age, they didn't need to pay insurance on it anymore when they only used it to haul mulch lol. SO, since they wanted to sell it, they offered it to Jeremy first. For 3k, how could he go wrong?
He's worked for a couple months, painting the box, painting the hood, adding decals, new lights, new stereo etc etc. I bought him beefy tires and rims for Father's Day. HE LOVES THAT TRUCK.
We went down to Bloomingdale to do fireworks last night, and he offered to take the leftover debris to our fire pit at home after. Unfortunately, we were so exhausted, we went straight up to bed.
Thankfully, Bella was at other grandma's party in Dell and let us know she was going to sleep at our house because there were too many people there. So we left the door open in preparation for her arrival.
We were laying in bed talking.....I heard the door slam when Bella arrived. And then my phone rang,
"Mom, the truck's on fire!". HOLY SHIT.
We got up like a bat out of hell, put clothes on (or, at least pajama pants and night shirt) and ran down, grabbing fire extinguishers on the way out of door.....Jeremy's yelling to grab the hose, I'm searching in the dark for all of the kinks keeping it from working. It was chaos, and frustrating....he's throwing things out of the truck box into the driveway, burning his fingers without thinking, trying to desperately save the situation before it hit the gas tank....
His truck was parked next to the nylon car port holding my car. That is situated directly in front of our large LP tank for home heat....it could have been catastrophic and devastating had it hit the tank in the truck.
After all is said and done, we saved it. But now we're left with a burned pile of debris in driveway and fire pit. The truck has lost the brand new tail lights, has some burned parts of the box. Thankfully he was planning on replacing the box someday anyway since the old Toyota trucks are known to keep the pristine front, while the box rotted away (which his truck was doing).
Basically, lights and wiring for those lights need to be replaced. Good thing he knows a good mechanic, eh? Thank you dads, for situating Bella's arrival to our house when she did. We could have woke to nothing, or not woke up at all. What happens when an LP tank is hit with fire? What happens in the house? Does it blow up?
We've been using his '87 Toyota 4x4 all weekend. This is a truck he was offered to purchase from my parents; he's lusted over this truck for years, it's been my step dad's, and he received it when his brother passed. They realized, at their age, they didn't need to pay insurance on it anymore when they only used it to haul mulch lol. SO, since they wanted to sell it, they offered it to Jeremy first. For 3k, how could he go wrong?
He's worked for a couple months, painting the box, painting the hood, adding decals, new lights, new stereo etc etc. I bought him beefy tires and rims for Father's Day. HE LOVES THAT TRUCK.
We went down to Bloomingdale to do fireworks last night, and he offered to take the leftover debris to our fire pit at home after. Unfortunately, we were so exhausted, we went straight up to bed.
Thankfully, Bella was at other grandma's party in Dell and let us know she was going to sleep at our house because there were too many people there. So we left the door open in preparation for her arrival.
We were laying in bed talking.....I heard the door slam when Bella arrived. And then my phone rang,
"Mom, the truck's on fire!". HOLY SHIT.
We got up like a bat out of hell, put clothes on (or, at least pajama pants and night shirt) and ran down, grabbing fire extinguishers on the way out of door.....Jeremy's yelling to grab the hose, I'm searching in the dark for all of the kinks keeping it from working. It was chaos, and frustrating....he's throwing things out of the truck box into the driveway, burning his fingers without thinking, trying to desperately save the situation before it hit the gas tank....
His truck was parked next to the nylon car port holding my car. That is situated directly in front of our large LP tank for home heat....it could have been catastrophic and devastating had it hit the tank in the truck.
After all is said and done, we saved it. But now we're left with a burned pile of debris in driveway and fire pit. The truck has lost the brand new tail lights, has some burned parts of the box. Thankfully he was planning on replacing the box someday anyway since the old Toyota trucks are known to keep the pristine front, while the box rotted away (which his truck was doing).
Basically, lights and wiring for those lights need to be replaced. Good thing he knows a good mechanic, eh? Thank you dads, for situating Bella's arrival to our house when she did. We could have woke to nothing, or not woke up at all. What happens when an LP tank is hit with fire? What happens in the house? Does it blow up?
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Date: 2022-07-03 08:45 pm (UTC)fire. pretends to be our servant. Is our master.
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