Writer's Workshop - Fire

Tell a story (based on truth or fiction) where someone is playing with fire - literally or metaphorically --- and probably shouldn't be.

I have a bad habit.

When we go to restaurants,

I like to play with the candles.

I take a toothpick

and burn the ends.

I know,

not very smart.

Even at home.

when the power goes

and I have candles burning,

I like to play with the wax.

When I was in university,

I went to a restaurant with some mates.

It was a nice one,

and hadn't been there before.

A few years later,

I started working at a pre-school.

There was a nice restaurant nearby.

It looked familiar,

but I couldn't put my finger on it.

After going there for many months,

I had dinner there one evening

and was talking to the manager. 

It turned out

this was the same restaurant 

I had been to years before.

But it looked a little different.

The manager told me

it had been redecorated after the fire.

So, my mate and I finish dinner.

I put my napkin on the table

and the wind blows.

You guessed it,

right into the candle!

Yup,

I almost burnt the place down!!!

You'd think I'd have learnt to be more careful.

Unfortunately not.

There's just something about candles

and hot wax....