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| Braais, women and hairdryers
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Category: Past Competitions -> My Juiciest Story (expired) |
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Posted by:
captainjack
Date:
11/17/2008 8:59:00 PM
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| About Captain Jack: |
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Male |
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35 |
| Country: |
South Africa |
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Johannesburg |
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Wet weather. Good for the garden, but terrible for my weekly Sunday braai. I decided to have one yesterday anyway.
Everything was a bit damp, but I thought I’d just have to use a few more firelighters to get the fire going. Problem was even the firelighters didn’t light properly. After about half an hour of trying in vain to get the fire going, I was ready to give up.
So I went inside and told my wife to put the oven grill on.
“Why?” she asked.
“I can’t get the braai going”, I admitted.
“So why don’t you use a hairdryer?” she said matter-of-factly.
“WHAT – are you crazy, woman?!”
There was no way that a self-respecting man come within ten feet of a hairdryer, never mind to help him with the most primal manly act of starting a fire.
“Put on the oven, woman, and stop that crazy talk.”
But my wife is very stubborn. So she went to get her hairdryer, plugged it into an extension cord, and then pointed it at the struggling fire. And then she switched it on.
Now I’m shitting you not – that fire came to life like nothing I’ve ever seen!!! Every coal started burning like a charm. It was amazing! Within five minutes, I had one of the best fires going that I’ve ever had, and the meat was spectacular.
Now I may not be a big enough man to get a good fire going, but I am a big enough man to admit when I’m wrong. So now my wife’s hairdryer will be a permanent feature of my braai kit. I’ll just make sure I use it before my mates come over.
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