Thursday, April 16, 2020

Risk management lessons - how to avoid getting burned

 Some days before the incident: The bedlight goes off and go find a replacement in these quarantine times – instead just buy a candle from the supermarket… note that this candle was mentioning “Ruhe in Frieden” (I google translated it later.. I have to improve my German)

 

23:30: I light up the candle and lie on the bed with a plan of reading something… instead, I fell asleep instantly

 

…at some point during the night: The candle light must have been bothering so I put the pillow on my face… it was a big pillow so it probably reached up to the candle… afterwards, I further pushed the pillow away – it should have been annoying while burningJ

 

3:30:  somehow (either due to the heat or the flare) I woke up in a room with a cloud of smoke in it…. Extinguished the fire, cleaned up the mess, used a fan to get rid of the smoke etc etc

 

6:00:  slept again.

 

 

Key take away: do not buy anything with wishes that you are unsure of what they mean – they might come trueJ