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inahandbasketHoly shit that was scary.
Came home at 11ish from an evening of playing Magic: The Gathering (yes, the card game) with some fellow old-school dorks, got dropped off at the apartment, walked up the steps and opened the door. Thereup, I was greeted by the overwhelming stench of natural gas.*
Freaked out, I ran into the bedroom and started shaking my dear![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
prosicated, who didn't respond for a good 5 seconds. As you can imagine I was duly freaking at this point, but true to my form I wasn't shouting but just quietly... well... freaked out.
Finally she did wake up, and said "oh god, it does smell like gas in here..."
Like I needed the vindication. I almost had a headache already from the strength of it.
As it turns out, one of the burners wasn't all the way turned off, and had been slowly leaking for a number of hours into the apartment.
The cats are both fine,prosicated is also fine (and already back asleep), but damn that was a scary moment. I won't be sleeping for at least another hour, by then hopefully my heart will have stopped pounding.
*Yes, I know natural gas is odorless, but they cut it with methane for just such occurances. So you can smell leaks.
Came home at 11ish from an evening of playing Magic: The Gathering (yes, the card game) with some fellow old-school dorks, got dropped off at the apartment, walked up the steps and opened the door. Thereup, I was greeted by the overwhelming stench of natural gas.*
Freaked out, I ran into the bedroom and started shaking my dear
prosicated, who didn't respond for a good 5 seconds. As you can imagine I was duly freaking at this point, but true to my form I wasn't shouting but just quietly... well... freaked out. Finally she did wake up, and said "oh god, it does smell like gas in here..."
Like I needed the vindication. I almost had a headache already from the strength of it.
As it turns out, one of the burners wasn't all the way turned off, and had been slowly leaking for a number of hours into the apartment.
The cats are both fine,
prosicated is also fine (and already back asleep), but damn that was a scary moment. I won't be sleeping for at least another hour, by then hopefully my heart will have stopped pounding. *Yes, I know natural gas is odorless, but they cut it with methane for just such occurances. So you can smell leaks.
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Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 12:09 pm (UTC)I had a rip-roaring headache by the time you woke me up, too. So glad I didn't sicken the cats or anything with my stupid. Back to being terrified of the 60 year old stove for me, then.
Re: Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 12:38 pm (UTC)Hold me accountable for sleepy homophone errors, will you?
Fine, I see how it is.
*plots grammatical revenge*
Re: Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 01:12 pm (UTC)Re: Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 01:15 pm (UTC)Re: Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 01:22 pm (UTC)Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
(another Douglas Adams quote)
Re: Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 01:26 pm (UTC)"My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree branches and fall out of trees." -DA
Re: Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 01:34 pm (UTC)Re: Sorry!!! I didn't mean to be a stupidhead!
Date: 2006-08-29 01:35 pm (UTC)