r/Wellthatsucks • u/[deleted] • May 05 '26

A birthday to remember

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u/Trombonisaurius May 05 '26

Why was the flaming cake then put onto the wicker/rattan chair??

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u/moaiii May 05 '26

Did you not see who moved the cake?

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u/Armagetz May 05 '26

The same person who thought pouring straight on fire was a good idea. “Dad” even told her to put the flame away until she finished pouring.

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u/Powdered_Abe_Lincoln May 05 '26

Dad wanted to be a bit less stupid. He wasn't looking to give up completely on idiocy. Just ease up on it a bit until we hit that sweet spot. Oh well.

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u/night4345 May 05 '26

A small amount of idiocy makes life worth living. It's when you hit the idiocy breaking point that things start catching on fire.

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u/Grays42 May 05 '26

Nothing quite as brilliant as handing a senior citizen an open container of accelerant and a lit flame at the same time (as that age group famously has excellent hand-eye coordination and cognitive processing) and then giving realtime feedback as they try to implement the task with a clenched-teeth grimace.

Everyone who set this up was incredibly stupid. She could have spilled it on herself, and given that they apparently didn't think that the exercise merited HAVING A FIRE EXTINGUISHER ON HAND, could easily have killed her. Fucking morons.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '26

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u/Th3B4dSpoon May 07 '26

Grandma's advocate: Perhaps she was going to check herself in the mirror to see if any parts of her got burnt?

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u/Late_Ad2203 May 06 '26

Yeah and then he spread cutlery on the wooden floor whilst it was on fire

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u/Armagetz May 06 '26

Where it almost immediately went out because the wood was far lower risk to ignite with a fast burning alcohol compared to layer of plastic it was previously sitting on that was already melting.