Good Morning and Merry Christmas to y’all!! You won’t believe what happened yesterday…the back of the truck caught fire while we were driving!!

We did some last minute Christmas shopping yesterday and were driving back home. At one point, I looked in the wing mirror and saw flames coming out of the back pan of the truck. I can’t believe this but I didn’t scream, swear or exclaim…I rather nonchalantly said to Gnome in a steady voice,

“Darling, the back of the truck is on fire.”

Of course Gnome slammed on the brakes and we both ran outside to see what was happening. The fire seemed to have started inside one of the boxes and was spreading quickly to other items on the truck. Gnome poured all the water that we had on the flaming box which wasn’t enough to douse it out….what to do?? The only fluid left was a big bottle of coke which I bought as a Christmas treat (Santa drinks Coke at Christmas too!!). Hah, the coke did the trick and stopped the fire….saved by a bottle of coke!!

After the fire went out, we realised the enormity of the situation…if we didn’t have the bottle of coke, the back of the car would have been up in flames with no hope of saving it. Instead, we have a melted plastic hole in our truck pan…we can live with that!! The other thing was that we had cans of diesel in the back of the truck and luckily they were on the opposite side of the fire!

Anyway, we are puzzled over how the fire started in the box. There was a book, a packet of metal spoons and loose leaf tea in the box. Next to the box, there was a bottle of coffee creamer which thoroughly melted. Was it the tea or the coffee creamer…huh??? This really means that we have no idea what happened and have concluded that it was a freak incident.

Well, that is our Christmas Miracle and we are grateful that it all ended well! We have to Thank our Christmas Fairy Gnome…