You Upped Your Game Too Much
One summer when I was 16, I was burning ants in our backyard with a magnifying glass and was getting bored. I decided to up my game. It was almost the last thing I ever did. I scooped up some ants and threw them in a plastic pail and added gasoline to light it up. It worked really well—too well. The flames became too high and I was afraid my parents would catch me.
To put out the fire, I thought kicking the pale on its side would extinguish it. It didn’t. It just spread on the ground and the heat from the fire melted the plastic pale when I kicked it. It splashed on the shed and onto my right leg and sure enough, I was on fire. I tried to stop, drop and roll but that didn’t do anything.
Luckily there was a water hose nearby and I was able to put out the flames that were cooking the side of my leg. I was in flip-flops and shorts at the time.
It left me with a nasty second-degree burn. I am lucky enough to have hairy legs, so it doesn’t show too much. I remember removing strips of burned flesh from my leg in the shower a few days later. It was the nastiest thing ever. Story credit: Reddit/KimchiLover1