Holiday mishaps

[Boog]

What kind of mishaps have you had happen at the holidays?
Christmas day a few years back we were gathered at my b i l's house. He and his son deep fried a turkey. It looked real good. They pulled that dude and we went inside for our Christmas dinner. He had the fireplace going real nice too. We all sat down at the table and had started passing around the food when someone began pounding on the front door and screaming "get out get out you are on fire! " B i l opened the door and the guy was serious. He said the roof is burning from one end to the other. We snatched up the children and grandma and exited quickly. He was right. The whole upper portion of the house was on fire over our heads at the dinner table and we had no clue. The fire place was snapping and popping behind us and all seemed normal. The smoke was going right out the roof ventilators. The fire department was only a few blocks away but they couldn't save it. The whole house burned down with vehicles in the garage. It turned out they had their turkey fryer right at the opening to the garage and when they pulled the turkey out they forgot to turn off the fryer gas. The oil continued to heat up until it began to spit out fireballs of oil that attached to the super dry paneling inside the garage and fire ran up the wall and into the attic then ran across the ceiling.
We were pretty glad the guy who banged on the door happened to be out in his front yard that day and noticed the smoke. He lived nearly a block away.
We didn't get one single bite of food that day but considering how it turned out we did alright. That was one Christmas day we will never forget.

PSA. Ya'll be real careful with those deep fryers and where you use them.