Burnt Toast

Somehow, a lot of us grew up with having learned that if you smell burnt toast you are having a stroke (or something else bad is happening to your brain.)

I just did a google search about it and it seems it might have been a "Heritage Moment" video but alls I know is smelling burnt toast (when there's no burnt toast) isn't a good thing.

So last night I was watching something when I very distinctly smelt burnt toast.

Hmmm, I thought to myself, I did make toast earlier, but it was a couple of hours ago so it's unlikely from that.  A small tiny part of my brain thought maybe I should get up and look at the toaster just to make sure but that seemed a little unreasonable.  But the smell was still pretty intense.

There weren't any smoke detectors going off, which I think they really only would if you REALLY REALLY burnt the toast (burnt toast doesn't give off a lot of smoke until things go seriously wrong) so I had no external evidence of it being a neighbour and I really didn't want to text someone saying "I might be having a stroke" at like 9pm at night, so instead, I stuck my head into my hoodie.  Or, I suppose, I pulled my hoodie collar up to cover my nose, more accurately.

And, thankfully, the smell went away.  So it wasn't my brain doing weird brain things it was someone in an apartment near me who literally burnt their toast.  

I did also hold both my arms up and try to say a sentence out loud but I'm not sure you can self-check for stroke symptoms but anyway, I'm glad I was able to make the smell "go away" and it wasn't some health scare, just a bad toaster situation for someone nearby!