burgundyben
Well-known member
I rather foolishly alluded to the fact that I had perpetrated the most foolish act by anyone ever by quite along way yesterday in response to a post by Stamfordain, and subsequently I came under pressure to share it with the forum.
So here it is, its quite brief, and maybe not too well written as its kind of hard to explain why anyone would do something soooo fundamentally stupid, I still, about 18 years later, have absolutely no idea why I did it.
Before I go any further, I need you to picture the flame that comes out of a bunsen burner, you remember from chemistry at school, bunsen burner, two types of flame, sort of waving yellow flame, bit like a match but bigger? well, not that one, the other one, the fierce blue rocket blast cone shaped very hot affair, picture that, but about oh, about 4 feet high.
Clears throat.
Well, I estimate I was about 13 years old, my best mate then (and still) and I were, well I dont know what we were doing, but we were, mucking about, in my dads shed, I had a box of matches.
There was a half dismantled garden cultivator in there, sort single cylinder two stroke petrol driven thing. Well, its semi dismantled state included that the fuel tap on the bottom of the tank and the cap from the tank were removed, and probly had been for sometime, although that does not explain why, I choose to light a match and insert it into the tap hole in the tank whilst looking down the filler hole.......er, remember that 4 foot flame I asked you to picture, well thats what shot out of the tank, only for a second or so, just long enough to burn off my eyelashes, eyebrows and fringe.
Er, thats it, cept my mate was larfing so much he was sick and that my mum went er, beserk.
See, it really was very foolish.
:O)
So here it is, its quite brief, and maybe not too well written as its kind of hard to explain why anyone would do something soooo fundamentally stupid, I still, about 18 years later, have absolutely no idea why I did it.
Before I go any further, I need you to picture the flame that comes out of a bunsen burner, you remember from chemistry at school, bunsen burner, two types of flame, sort of waving yellow flame, bit like a match but bigger? well, not that one, the other one, the fierce blue rocket blast cone shaped very hot affair, picture that, but about oh, about 4 feet high.
Clears throat.
Well, I estimate I was about 13 years old, my best mate then (and still) and I were, well I dont know what we were doing, but we were, mucking about, in my dads shed, I had a box of matches.
There was a half dismantled garden cultivator in there, sort single cylinder two stroke petrol driven thing. Well, its semi dismantled state included that the fuel tap on the bottom of the tank and the cap from the tank were removed, and probly had been for sometime, although that does not explain why, I choose to light a match and insert it into the tap hole in the tank whilst looking down the filler hole.......er, remember that 4 foot flame I asked you to picture, well thats what shot out of the tank, only for a second or so, just long enough to burn off my eyelashes, eyebrows and fringe.
Er, thats it, cept my mate was larfing so much he was sick and that my mum went er, beserk.
See, it really was very foolish.
:O)
