"This Kiosk Smells Like Burning"
(or, I'm Still With You All The Way!)
You know how, in the last little bit of nowhere, I wrote the following:
The winter kiosk is up. Not in flames, mind you, but we're still optimistic. Well, those of you who joined the ensuing betting pool can check your tickets, and whomever put down "October 28" gets to claim their prize.
Now before all of you start panicking, let me reassure you both Mel and the kiosk are just fine. It was just a slight case of near spontaneous combustion on the kiosk's part this morning. On a related note...with the way the company's been on such a healthy & safety kick these days, you would think they'd maybe start investing in plastic curtains that don't melt, smoke or burst into flame should they wind up touching one of the kiosk's small potlights.
As demonstrated earlier this morning, obviously not.
From the second-hand accounts I've heard, it was blind luck a customer passing by noticed the smell and the smoke starting to waft from one upper corner of the kiosk's drawn curtain. Suffice to say, disaster was quickly averted and no smoke alarms went off, and now the kiosk curtain is sporting a pretty black, acrid hole in one spot.
Although had it been worse, the ensuing call to my district manager would have been interesting.
"Uh, hi, it's me. Before you hear any wild rumours, the scheduling for the kiosk is going to be a little strange next week. Mostly because the kiosk just burned down. Don't worry, no one's hurt, and I think they managed to save a couple of scarves too. Just FYI."At the rate this is going, all we need is a faulty self-destruct button mounted in the kiosk, and we're set!
Today's Lesson: burning kiosk curtain, according to Mel, smells a lot like those fluffy pastries you can get in the main foyer of Toronto's Chinatown Centre. So if you happen to be nowhere near a Chinatown, and you smell something like that...you might want to take an extra step around the kiosk you're passing by.
posted by Phillip at 8:47 PM
