I nearly started a fire in the kitchen today!

here's what happened. I filled the kettle with water then put it on the stove to boil. I told myself that I would go and change the bulb for the toilet in my mum's room first then go do a quick vacuum of my room floor before coming down to turn off the fire again. the bulb didn't take very long, but I ended up vacuuming for quite a while because I ended vacuuming under the beds and behind the bedside table as well. there was also a ball of dust/hair stuck in the vacuum tube so I spent some time getting that out too. After I was done, it was some time later and I totally forgot about the boiling water.

I went to use the computer, then after quite a long time (like really long! at least one and a half hours) I started to smell a faint burning smell(because I was upstairs). I looked around upstairs curiously, having not the slightest memory that I had put the water to boil. Finally I went down to check out the kitchen and WHOA! the kettle was still on the stove, the water was all dried up, the base and some parts of the kettle was brown/burnt, and the lid cover which was made of plastic was half-melted and shrivelled like a raisin. I lifted up the lid and the knob literally just detached itself from the lid because it was kind of molten.

what a careless mistake! but thankfully, nothing else was burnt. It could have been much worse. Imagine what if I smelt the smell of the burning kitchen instead of the burnt kettle. That would have been really bad. thank goodness. :)

time for a new kettle. lol.