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As a young kid I used to watch Bill Nye the Science guy on PBS. Why? Because he was awesome. I especially loved episodes where he used fire in his experiments. On one Saturday afternoon he showed us impressionable children that regular run-of-the-mill non-dairy powdered coffee creamer could explode in certain situations. Explaining why flour mills used to go boom sometimes.
To show this he burned some creamer on a spoon. Showing it did nothing unless air was mixed with it. He then flung it at an open candle flame. The proceeding explosive ball of flame was more than I could stand. Being the pyro I was, I decided to try it myself. I nicked some creamer out of the kitchen and a candle from my mom's room, being careful not to wake her.
Setting it up on the living room floor, I grabbed a huge spoonful of the stuff and flung it at the burning candle. It was glorious. I watched in awe as the clump of creamer exploded into a massive ball of flame.....then in horror as it hit the living room carpet before it burned out completely. With a loud "flump" it spread out and started burning the carpet. The smell was awful.
Panicking I ran to the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water to throw on the now burning carpet. Returning back I noticed it was already going out on it's own. But I doused it for good measure. The large, black, and rather nasty mess was very obvious. So I just covered it with the rug. No one noticed.....for a few months.
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