Frank and I had a little adventure this weekend... well overnight on
monday... we woke up to this.


There was one firework-thingy under the seat. We had bought some on
Sunday & never used them, so we left 'em at frank's dad's place on
Monday and came home. Stopped to eat dinner along the way & settled in
at home around 8, went to bed around 11. I went to leave for work &
opened up the car to see this. I figured one of the fireworks got
loose & rolled under the seat. I cleaned it up as much as I could and
came to work. I took it to the Ford place for an esitmate (yowza!) and
frank & I spent the evening cleaning out the smoke damage. After
telling my dad about it, he said that fireworks don't just go off on
their own; I told Frank & he suggested that I take it to the fire
station. They had NEVER seen anything like it. The fact that so little
of the car was burned and that the damage was so focused (the CDs in
the center console and stereo weren't burned, the ice scraper and
videotape in the back of the burned seat weren't the least bit
effected, the windshield & wipers are fine...) they are saying that we
should definitely file a report. They took pictures because it was so
crazy to them and when I asked if I was their "Star of the Weekend"
they reiterated the fact that they had never seen anything like it.