In article >,
Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:

> When baking a pie crust, it is likely not a good idea to get so
> involved in reading a book that it takes the smoke alarm to alert you
> to the fact that you just burned the sh*t out of your pie crust.

Oops! Live and learn. At least all that got burned was the pie crust.
Many years ago, a college friend of mine dozed off one day when he was
home sick with the flu. He awoke to find his kitchen fully involved in
flames and the chicken noodle soup he was heating up was a total loss!