Wake up call !

by Drew Dilger
(Cardiff, Wales)

Around 8 years ago I was staying at my ex girlfriends. She was in work at the time working nights. Her mother, who was a severe alcoholic was downstairs finishing off her bottle of vodka. Lying in bed around 11pm, I started to feel very drowsy. Thinking I was tired, I turned the TV and light off and settled down into bed to go to sleep. I couldnt keep my eyes open, I felt so tired and weak, I thought I just needed sleep.I was about to fall asleep when suddenly, I felt a jolt, as if someone had poked me with electricity and got straight out of bed. "Somethings not right" I thought. I opened the bedroom door to be met by the most powerful smell of gas id ever smelt. I went downstairs to the kitchen and found my ex girlfriends mother slumped over the gas cooker (passed out) with all 4 gas hobs turned on, the grill and the gas oven on FULL. The scary thought is, what if she had knocked the pilot light switch? Or I lit a cigarette? (I no longer smoke. If I hadnt of got out of bed, I would have suffered carbon monoxide poisoning and never woke up. Something forced me out of bed that night. Ill never forget that night.