The part about the shirt catching on fire was actually pretty funny.
I was helping someone put a transmission in their car couple of decades ago. I was reaching down from inside the hood to remove the starter motor bolts. The engine was still pretty hot, since we didn't want to wait around for it to cool off some. I was so focused on getting the bolts out that I didn't realize that my forearm had gotten a massive 3rd degree burn from the exhaust pipe between the engine and the catalytic converter. Just didn't feel it since there are fewer nerves on the outside forearm than there are in your fingertips. Still have a big blotch/white patch on that arm from the scar it left. It is funny now that I look back at it, but it wasn't funny when it happened. . .
I was helping someone put a transmission in their car couple of decades ago. I was reaching down from inside the hood to remove the starter motor bolts. The engine was still pretty hot, since we didn't want to wait around for it to cool off some. I was so focused on getting the bolts out that I didn't realize that my forearm had gotten a massive 3rd degree burn from the exhaust pipe between the engine and the catalytic converter. Just didn't feel it since there are fewer nerves on the outside forearm than there are in your fingertips. Still have a big blotch/white patch on that arm from the scar it left. It is funny now that I look back at it, but it wasn't funny when it happened. . .
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You must have been feeling no pain at all that day.