Yesterday I put some delicious pineapple chicken on the grill, closed the lid and went inside.
Five minutes later, I walked outside to billowing smoke and flames shooting from the grill.
I yelled and wrenched the dials to off and while I’m pulling the chicken off the grill (thank goodness I left the tongs outside!) Monkey comes running outside..
Monkey: “Mom, there’s a fire.. I’ll call 9-9-1!”*
I tell him that I have it under control. It’s then THEN that I realize that I had to turn the dials on my grill ALL THE WAY off. Which means that someone turned them to HIGH. I whirl around to face the little monkey, who is holding my phone ready to dial 9-9-1.
I look him in the eyes and ask: “Monkey, did you mess with the dials on the grill?”
Monkey: “Yes, I was hungry and wanted the chicken fast”
We had a long talk about not playing with fire and leaving the grill alone.
Moral: When a Monkey gets hungry… the chicken gets burned.
* you absolutely positively cannot convince him that the number is anything other than 9-9-1.
OH NO! Although, it is pretty funny.
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IT is
I’m tellin’ you, it’s a good thing I have a sense of humor and he’s cute 
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When the kiddo is a bit older, you’ll have to teach him the hand test for grilling.
Wait though until he understands it’s 911.
Your chicken charcoal looked as though it had potential.
I’m glad no one was hurt.
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yes ma’am!
I am so upset it went to charcoal briquets.. I was SO looking forward to it!
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YIIIIIIKES!!!!
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Hi-larious!
He keeps you on your toes, eh?
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That’s saying a mouthful
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Yikes! That’s some blackened chicken sister! ; )
horrific!
I was so sad. They smelled SO good, until they became charbroiled hockey pucks, that is.
While I’d usually say anything you make would be delicious, well, those babies look to be good for batting practice, and that is all!
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hockey pucks baby
I gave them both golf clubs and they slammed them across the backyard. 
Heh, one of those classic funny/scary kid stories. A logical thinking mind though, very good engineer material!
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He is SO going to be an engineer!! The kid is brilliant. I swear I’m going to go to toast a bagel one day and my sprinkler system is going to turn on.
He has fantastic logic, for a 3 year old
You can totally follow every bit of his logic, which is kind of scary.
Oh my! Well it sounds like it would have been a nice dinner! Super caramelized. Hope your talk helped to prevent further near fires! Boys!
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Confucius say, “Chicken burned is lesson learned. Or funny blog post.”
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WEll, the kiddo has to be good for something, right?
You should know! Fury’s given you a number of awesome blog posts
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LOL! That is too funny. BTW your German Chocolate cake looks heavenly!
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Thank you!!! That German Chocolate cake is simply scrumptious!
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LMAO! I love that little booger. Did Adrian enjoy them?
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OK, Monkey now qualifies for the Curious George school of cooking logic. Get yourself a yellow hat, dress, shoes, etc. and DO NOT LET HIM NEAR the oven when baking a turkey cause it is REALLY hard to get smoke out of the carpet, drapes, ceiling, hair, etc.
Heh
LOL. I need to get him that book!
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You do know you’re supposed to feed the poor boy, right? At least it was outside versus an inside burner.
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because he’s *obviously* starving, right?
LOL. That is about the only reason that I’m glad we don’t have gas inside!
.-= Rachel ~ Southern Fairytale´s most recent blog ..When a Monkey Gets Hungry =-.
Apparently Monkey’s somehow part British; their emergency number is 9-9-9.
Oh, and this is why I grill with charcoal.
That, and the fact that I’m poor.
Glad to hear that nobody got hurt! What was plan B for dinner, by the way?
Let’s think about that:
Monkey + charcoal + lighter fluid + fire…………
They had my homemade mac and cheese instead.
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