The blazer ABLAZE!

Another lesson...another awesome face :)

So, while preston was in las vegas the muffler rusted through on the Blazer and it was MEGA loud, but we really didn't want to shell out the money to fix it, so preston just drove it around town, hiding his face as he pulled into the hospital. During the drive back to Utah he noticed a burning scent coming into the car. He assumed that the exhaust was seeping through the old, thin, rusting floor of the car and continued driving (with the windows down because it was so cold out!) Needless to say, when he arrived he WREAKED like he had just been on fire. Everything in the car smelled horrible and we had to leave all the doors open for 2 days and drown it in fabreeze before we could even get in it again.

I told him he was lucky to be alive, but that statement rang even truer tonight when I went out to find Preston's blood pressure cuff (I tried to donate blood the other day and I was REJECTED for low blood pressure. The guy said it was 74/60, which is totally ridiculous, so I had preston check it tonight and it was completely normal...) The seat was down in the blazer and it had been down since preston was in Las Vegas. I lifted the seat slightly to grope underneath it for the cuff and I touched something that felt crispy. When I pulled my hand out it STUNK BAD like burning and my fingers were all black. I ran inside for a flashlight and went out to find THIS in our backseat, which is all that remains of my intramural blanket, provided by POWERADE (our sponsor). Apparently at some point between las vegas and provo my blanket caught fire and preston just kept driving :)

SO...IF YOU EVER SMELL BURNING IN YOUR CAR, DON'T ASSUME ANYTHING, PULL OVER AND GET OUT BECAUSE YOUR CAR MIGHT JUST BE ABLAZE :)