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| What is the weirdest, nicest, most annoying... thing that woke you up in the night? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Mell Mell Post Count: 14302 Msg: #1 54 days ago, October 14th 2009 | Last night I was woken up by a loud explosion. It came from the kitchen direction so I went to look. | A can of Turkish cheese had exploded and the cheese had flown out of it. The cheese was in a regular can that canned food comes in, but had not yet been opened. It was one of the newer types of cans, where you pull a ring at the top of the can, rather than use a can opener. Anyone know why it exploded?  Vinovat Sudarynya Jonathan Campion Post Count: 718 Msg: #2 54 days ago, October 14th 2009 | I don't suppose hostel fire alarms are a particularly original way to be woken up, but it's all I can recall... I can sleep through most things! | I didn't know you could get cheese in a can, or that Turkey makes cheese - is it one of those things that sounds gross but is actually really nice? J. Mell Mell Post Count: 14302 Msg: #3 54 days ago, October 14th 2009 |  I didn't know you could get cheese in a can, or that Turkey makes cheese - is it one of those things that sounds gross but is actually really nice? Yeah, they have lots of canned cheese in the Turkish stores here in Germany. It comes in salt water in a can. The ones in the cans are a bit like feta cheese. They taste great, even after they have exploded out of the can. People on a cookery site I am a member of are telling me that I should not eat it, or I will die, but here I am alive as usual, after a few days of eating the exploding cheese. :) Another thing that occasionally goes bump in the night is my parents in law phoning to ask questions about the internet. Maybe they presume that we are always awake at midnight. Thankfully, it is my boyfriend who answers the questions. I wont pick up the phone any time after falling asleep. Internet questions(and all other stuff parents in law want) can certainly wait until after noon next day.  ChuckMiser Cheap Charley Post Count: 56 Msg: #4 54 days ago, October 15th 2009 | the don't eat it after it explodes is a very good idea. boutulism can cause cans to explode! I don't know what it looks like or smells like it might not do either? | I heard a awefull racket commming from the street so I ran to the hotel window to see a car with a wake of fire comming out of the front of the car... It a was drunk driver with a motorcycle stuck under it, fleeing the scene of the crime in Phnom Penh Cambodia around their Khmer New Years Holidays. Mell Mell Post Count: 14302 Msg: #5 54 days ago, October 15th 2009 | a car with a wake of fire comming out of the front of the car... That reminds me - I lived in an area in Dublin, Ireland where car theft was common. Sometimes the stolen cars were burnt on our street. These burnings happened around twice per week. I was sometimes woken up when the tyres exploded. I used to then get up and phone the fire brigade, to come ask them to come and put the fire out. It was a place where I could never leave my widows open. Either a burgler would climb in or else the place would get filled with thick black smoke from the burning cars. We had 3 of our cars stolen from our street, which were likely burnt on the streets nearby. One time I was walking along the street and spotted one of our cars. Local kids were driving it around a square at a ridiculous speed. ChuckMiser Cheap Charley Post Count: 56 Msg: #6 53 days ago, October 16th 2009 | Mell please send me an email <snip>thanks | [Edited: 06:18 - Mell ] Mell Mell Post Count: 14302 Msg: #7 53 days ago, October 16th 2009 | Hello Chuck |  Please avoid posting email addresses and phone numbers on the forums. We snip them, to prevent spammers from gathering them. Why do you want me to send you an email? Cant you post what you want to say here. If not, then send a private message. Mel Mell Mell Post Count: 14302 Msg: #8 33 days ago, November 4th 2009 | Last Friday night we were woken up by loud pounding on the door of the people living upstairs and ringing of their door bell, at 3AM. The pounding, ringing and shouting went on for so long, with nobody opening the door that we started to get worried and called the police. When the pounder and ringer went outside, I looked out our window to see what he looked like, to tell the police in case he disappeared. He was covered in blood and then he saw me and started ringing our door bell. Somebody let him into the building and he then started pounding on our door. | We hoped he would keep it up, until the police arrived. It is pretty annoying to phone the police only for all to be peaceful and quiet when they arrrive. Just as they arrived, he started trashing the hall and screaming abuse about his brother in law and getting blood everywhere. The police took him away, and then my daughter wanted to get up for the day, because she couldnt sleep because of the excitement of Halloween. Number of Users: 3 | Number of Posts: 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
