The Story:
(as told by Willie and Brenda, December 22, 2007)
Willie was really paying attention in class that week in school and a fireman had come to school to tell the children about fire safety. Willie had her "ignorant" sister Brenda, to whom she had to teach fire safety (Brenda benefited from lot of things that Willie had to teach her). To have a fire safety class, you first have to have a fire. So Dad was burning some trash and Willie managed to get some of that stuff that was burning into another area. "Brenda, do you know how to smother a fire? You have to put a bucket over it and that will smother a fire." Willie got a bucket (metal) to smother the fire. As you know, fires can get pretty hot, and metal buckets are good at conductioning heat. So to show Brenda that the fire was really out, Willie picked up the (metal) bucket and thus bar-be-cued her fingers. Willie had to tell Mom since her fingers were really burnt. Mom opened up the freezer and had Willie stand with her fingers in the freezer for a very long time. Brenda kept walking by, mimicking Willie with her fingers in the freezer saying "Fire Safety, Fire Safety". Finally Mom told Brenda to stop saying "Fire Safety", so when Brenda walked by Willie (whose fingers were STILL in the freezer) after that, she just held up her fingers in what is now called the Fire Safety Pose.