Dinner with the Millers = No sleep for the rest of my life...

Yesterday at church Cindy asked if Ben and I would join her and Dan for dinner at the Homestead in Indee tonight.  Cindy scrunched up her face in the way that only she does as she explained that she had a phone call saying that they had won free dinner in a drawing that they had entered.  Neither her, nor Dan, could figure out who had entered the drawing and Cindy was slightly nervous about whether or not we would arrive and find out it was a big hoax!  Part of the deal was they could bring a couple or two with them and they invited us!

When we got there the hostess looked at us like we were on drugs and had no idea what we were talking about.  They finally figure out that we're there for the fire safety presentation and send us off to a back room. Um, fire safety presentation?  No one said that we would have to sit through a fire safety presentation.  Oh, great, here we go!

Turns out the man that held the presentation was a Lisbon graduate.  As a former, Mustang this didn't sit well.  But, he was slightly entertaining and well, we were with the Millers so how boring could it be?  The presentation started off with dinner which included real mashed potatoes, meat loaf, rolls, cole slaw and pie.  I would have never ordered that particular meal, but it was decent!  Ben later said that my meat loaf is much better ... so he scored points there!

So I'll give you the highlights of the presentation.  You're going to die.  Everyone is going to have a house fire in their lifetime, most people will experience at least 3, 2 minor and 1 major.  Smoke detectors fail 55.8% of the time and children, elderly and really everyone else will die.  You can die from burns, suffocation, toxic fumes, super heated air and a billion other things... but you will die.  Your children are going to die.  Your grandma is going to die.  You're going to die!  Of course they get you with the whole, your children are going to hide, you won't be able to find them and well, you're going to die looking for them when they're already dead.  Get the picture?  I seriously had a panic attack at one point and wanted to get up and leave because I was pretty sure that our house was on fire at that moment and I needed to go home because if my babies were going to die I needed to be there with them... dying.  Ugh.

So of course Master Guard has the solution with a zero failure rate... and tomorrow the guy is coming to try to sell us his lifetime guarantee smoke detectors, heat detectors, death detectors.  I can hardly wait... first they put you in the mindset that if you don't do this you'll die.  So how much is your life worth?  From my understanding it will mean a life time of payments... I'll let you know how much it's going to cost us!