What’s That Smell?
The other day, I was sitting in the living room writing as usual while my husband cleaned up the kitchen after lunch. My husband and stepson were talking about dictators or something. I kept noticing a strange smell while I tried to write yet another ehow article about how to give a massage. But I didn’t pay attention to it because I was busy.
Finally the smell got so strong that I couldn’t stand it any longer. “Do you smell that?” I asked them as I went into the kitchen to investigate.
“Smell what?” my husband asked.
I looked around and notice that the knob to one of the burners was turned on. My stepson had been leaning against the stove and had accidental turned the knob. Our flat was filling with gas! We promptly turned it off and opened all the windows.
Can you believe it?! We could’ve died! What if the phone rang? I saw a movie once where the phone rang causing a tiny spark that caused a whole building to explode. That can’t really happen, can it?
July 15th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Back at school we had “safety days” where they said not to turn the lights on when you smell gas as the spark in the switch could set it off. A spark’s a spark XD. Also i think i saw some ridiculous made-for-TV movie once in which a guy was assasinated by a house being filled with gas which exploded when he rang the doorbell… theoretically possible but you’d probably need a well sealed house and a LOT of gas. Also the explosion would primarily be diverted through the windows and not use all it’s force to blow off the door and kill him