Fire! Fire!

Things I've learned in the last half hour:

1. The plastic on tea pots will melt if left on the burner too long.
2. Melted plastic starts fires.
3. There is no button to turn off the smoke detector.
4. If there is ever a real fire, Desdemona will not hear the smoke detector. Thus, it is the responsibility of my other roommate and I to save Desdemona from impending doom.
5. Melted plastic doesn't come off easily.
6. Dried and hardened melted plastic chips off beautifully.
7. SOS pads do a better job of cleaning up remnants of melted plastic on a metal range than does a scratchy sponge.
8. Melted plastic is like unto charcoal on countertops. If you brush it off, it will leave black streaks.
9. Soft Scrub with bleach is magic and will clean off those black streaks.
10. I am very grateful that we replaced the battery in the smoke detector quite recently.

The end.