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Candles are bad. I had one of those Glade scented candles burning on my desk while I worked one day. I got up and went to the bathroom. I was gone maybe a minute. When I came out of the bathroom the smoke alarm in the hallway started going off. At first I was thinking the battery must be going dead on it and that's why it was going off. I couldn't smell smoke anywhere. I walked into my office and my desk was on fire. Seems the ceiling fan had blown a loose piece of paper on top of my candle. The paper caught on fire which caught my phone on fire which then caught a folder of papers on fire. Like a dork I scooped it all up and carried it to the sink. That was painful not to mention little pieces of burning paper dropped all over the carpet between my desk and the bathroom. I am so lucky I didn't burn the whole freakin' house down. And I am so glad my smoke detector is so sensitive.
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