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Input: Text: sorry for horrible formatting, overuse of parentheses, and possible slight incoherence. first time poster, long time lurker. 

true to tradition, this actually happened long ago when i was around 10. i had had my best friend over for a sleepover and we were doing all the normal girly sleepover things (hair, makeup, looking up photos of cute boy bands, the gist). whenever my best friend spent the night, we would pull a spare mattress into my room and lay it on the floor, because i only had a twin sized bed. the mattress, when it was in the room, took up almost all of the floor space; this gets really important later. after all of our girly rituals i, a mad scientist in the making, had a wonderful idea. we should light various substances on fire to see what color flames we could make! 

this is off to a great start, but surprisingly nothing bad happened for a while, we tried nail polish remover, perfume (fyi highly flammable if you have the wrong type), hand sanitizer, and several of these with various salts dissolved in them to change the color of the flames. now this was all well and fine, (we were pouring small amounts into the lid of a mason jar and lighting those on fire), and i, being the smart and prepared 10 year old that i was, had a glass of water on hand in case anything went wrong. nothing of note happened, other than some pretty bad ass flame stuff (that is actually really cool to watch and i would totally recommend trying in an actually safe setting). 

also, an important note to throw in here, we were doing this at a desk, with our back to the mattress on the floor (probably like 2-3 feet away from us), and there was a small space heater running right next to the mattress (it was winter and my room was in the basement so it was cold). my friend leaves and then i decide to continue my experiments on my own (my parents, of course, had no clue what was going on), and at some point i'm pouring some more nail polish remover into a mason jar with something already burning in it and i catch the nail polish remover still inside the container on fire. i freak out and blow it out and everything seems ok, and then a few minutes later i turn around and the mattress is on fire. my best guess, in hindsight, is that somehow the heater facilitated the fire jumping to the mattress. ten year old me is remarkably good in situations (there were several other prior incidents with making crayon candles and burning the paint off of walls with them on accident, but that's a different story), so i ran to the bathroom and got a jar full of water and ran back and threw it on the mattress (repeat a few times) and actually got the fire out. sat down shaking because adrenaline rush is over, proceed to clean up mess as best i could, put mattress back in the spare room (hiding the burned spot), and don't mention the incident to my parents. 

i continue to use the mattress periodically and just put the burned side down (carefully maneuvering so my parents never saw the burned spot). miraculously, they didn't notice until they were helping me move for my sophomore year of college (wherein my mother asked what had happened to the mattress and i responded  "what, hasn't that always been there?" ). 
note: i am now studying to be a rocket engineer, so that curiousity does pay off somehow, and yes, i feel horrible for everything i put my parents through (catching mattresses on fire wasn't the worst of it. 

 

edit: formatting

TIFU by playing with fire