"Grandpa Lights the Woodstove"
Back about a hundred years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed Ontario, I used to spend a lot of weekends down at my Grandpa's house. My grandfather used to use kerosene in a squirt can to get the fire started each morning in the old wood cookstove. -----One day my uncle borrowed the squirt can and put a little naptha in it to squirt down the sparkplug hole of an old gasoline lawnmower to get it started.
Grandpa came down for a look, seen HIS oilcan and grabbed it up and put it back on the shelf by the end of the woodstove.
---- Next morning I was laying in bed, heard grandpa get up and about, heard the old lids clanking on the wood cookstove as he crumpled up some paper and put it in, then some kindling wood, then I heard a couple of DOONK-DOONK noises as he pressed the base of the old squirt style style can to squirt what he THOUGHT was kerosene into the stove.
Then I heard the scratch of a sulphur match---then 'KABAAM!!!!"----"HOLY J&%$S ANNIE!!! (my Grandma)--THE DAMN STOVE BLEW UP---GET THE KIDS OUTA THE HOUSE!!!" Nobody was hurt, the house didn't catch fire, but my uncle was in deep disgrace for the next couple of weeks---Brian
Back about a hundred years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed Ontario, I used to spend a lot of weekends down at my Grandpa's house. My grandfather used to use kerosene in a squirt can to get the fire started each morning in the old wood cookstove. -----One day my uncle borrowed the squirt can and put a little naptha in it to squirt down the sparkplug hole of an old gasoline lawnmower to get it started.
Grandpa came down for a look, seen HIS oilcan and grabbed it up and put it back on the shelf by the end of the woodstove.
---- Next morning I was laying in bed, heard grandpa get up and about, heard the old lids clanking on the wood cookstove as he crumpled up some paper and put it in, then some kindling wood, then I heard a couple of DOONK-DOONK noises as he pressed the base of the old squirt style style can to squirt what he THOUGHT was kerosene into the stove.
Then I heard the scratch of a sulphur match---then 'KABAAM!!!!"----"HOLY J&%$S ANNIE!!! (my Grandma)--THE DAMN STOVE BLEW UP---GET THE KIDS OUTA THE HOUSE!!!" Nobody was hurt, the house didn't catch fire, but my uncle was in deep disgrace for the next couple of weeks---Brian
