Was in the bathroom blow drying my hair when it suddenly POPPED, once, and shot sparks and flames out of it’s @ss. I shrieked, Bob asked, “What happened?” and the smell of Ozone and burning ensued… I yanked the cord out of the socket and dropped it onto the tile.
It was a good hairdryer. Bob bought it for me about 20 years ago when I was recovering from surgery in California.
Guess I’ll need a new one. 😯
Life on the Farmlet 
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Yup. It was like that in retrospect. 😉
Nothing (earthly) lasts forever! Glad you came out unscathed! Penny Keach
Yes Penny, so true! I’m sure it sounded worse than it was… flames were more in than out, but the sparks that flew out and hit my bare arm stung a bit.
It only lasted 20 years? I hope your next one lasts that long! I’ve had a couple of heat guns stop working, but nothing quite so dramatic. The big event was in the 1990s when the monitor of my first computer commited suicide. It was one of those big CRT things, and one day I suddenly started smelling burning plastic. Yep — it was the monitor. I did the same thing — pulled the plug on it. It wasn’t long before I had a flat screen monitor.
Linda, funnily enough… the new one ended up being the same maker and a similar model. However, does anything last that long these days?
HA! Bob’s first computer did that years ago… but you can’t blame the computer. First thing he did was pull it out of the box and take it apart. Then when he put it back together and turned it on it started smoking! Seems he missed the loose wire that was pinched between two metal panels. No harm no foul, but the room filled with a lot of smoke very quickly! I’m just glad he didn’t get shocked or worse.
Let’s hear it for flat screens! 😀
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Annie, in retrospect it was kinda funny. I have a follow-up in the works. I hope it is as interesting in real life as it is in my head. We’ll see. 😉
Look forward to it…
A hair raising tale.
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Lynn, it wasn’t on long enough to raise but a few hairs on my balding pate. LOL! However, in the excitement it may have raised the hairs on my arm!
Omg, sorry Lynda, but laughing my guts out here. Guess you got your money’s worth out of it though, hey?
And then some, Deb! Got a new one day-before-yesterday. I don’t expect the same longevity from it.
Aye, re “longevity” sadly, it’s not terribly likely, is it?:/)
Same maker, same type of action, three times the cost of the original, nope, not likely to happen.
Oh bother!😀
Deb, one of my favorite replies in any annoying situation! Most people think it’s a typo, but any fan of Whinnie the Pooh will know it immediately! I hate to admit it, but that may not have been my utterance when the event was taking place…
This same thing has happened to me twice with a blow dryer. The first time the sparks burned a hole in the t-shirt I was wearing. I’ve had other things pop or snap and spark and smell – a lighted 10x mirror (which burned a spot on the countertop), a box fan, an electric heater, and a hand mixer. I’d say once in twenty years isn’t bad at all!!! Glad you didn’t suffer anything other than a sting!
Not at all the sort of thing that you want to happen but everything has its time, I suppose. I am glad that no damage was done to your hair.
Tom, me too! I don’t have much hair to spare anymore. I could have ended up looking like Persis Khambatta in her role in the first Star Trek movie. Well, bald certainly, but not nearly so stunning and beautiful. 😉
I haven’t got enough hair left to need much drying these days
It’s vanity, pure vanity, that keeps me trying to fluff and sculpt to hide the thinning top of my head. LOL, I think all my effort only works on people shorter than my 5.5 ft. height.