If I catch on fire...

If my body is found one day burnt to a crisp, and the detectives and fire department say it was spontaneous combustion, don't believe them. Point them in the direction of the silver Vidal Sasson hair drying lying inches from my toasted hair.

I own three hairdryers. Three. One is an old compact travel hairdryer. Another is one that I used for a long time but apparently it and its diffuser attachment had a blow out (baaaahahaha, GET IT?!?!) and broke up, so now they will not stay attached when I decide to go with a curly hairstyle. So that leaves us with hairdryer number three.

Shortly after buying this one, I noticed a "clicking" noise that would happen every so often while I was drying my hair. One day I was facing the mirror while using it and saw a small flash of light go off above my head. I was a little concerned and then noticed it again. The clicks corresponded with flash of light. A spark inside the hairdryer.

Now, normal people would probably quit using theirs if this happened. Its probably not safe to have electrical sparks that close to your flammable hair. But see, this is the newest of the three hairdryers. It should be the one that works the best. So I am stubbornly refusing to quit using it.

The sparks may have something to do with the lint-y hair-y trap thing at the back of the hairdryer. In most of these appliances, you can remove the trap cover and clean it out. I have tried every possible way to do this but the cover is impossibly attached to the hairdryer so it is stuck collecting lint and strands of hair. Which probably feed directly into the fan or motor or magical electricity thingy mabobs inside the appliance, leading to sparks.

Anyway, the moral of the story is, every morning there is a slight chance I will catch myself on fire. No pain no gain. Beauty is pain. I like to live on the edge. Or something like that. If anything happens to me, I will give my hairdryer (s) to the first person to ask for it. Ready, set.......go!

What? No takers?