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Some of you may remember last year I did a case study on which was cheaper replacing the burner on my Bar B Q or buying a new one? This story is an Epilogue to that story. I originally posted this on my family private blog, but figured it was worth sharing for a Saturday Funny.

Is the Label Supposed to Be On Fire?

That was a good question asked by my daughter on Wednesday, looking at our Bar B Q.

My wife had started the Bar B Q (the really old Bar B Q), and was playing soccer with our son in the back yard (waiting for the Q, to warm up). Time passed and the game continued waiting for the impending cooking of raw meat on flame.

My oldest daughter came out of the house and saw that the label on the Bar B Q (the one at the bottom where the knobs to turn the gas feed up and down (you know where the propane and air mix)) was actually bubbling and burning.

She asked, “Should the label be on fire?”, and my wife turned to see flames engulfing the bottom of the Bar B Q, this being a very bad thing since the flame could ignite the propane tank, thus causing an explosion that might blow a lot of windows out of the back of my house (not to mention blowing up some of my children).

My spouse ran over quickly, shut off the gas, showing great calm under pressure (I wasn’t there, so for all I know she was yelling obscenities and pushing small children out of the way, but I’d like to think she showed grace under pressure (Rush 1982)).

Luckily nothing else exciting happened after that (except that we had a delicious Swiss Chalet dinner instead of burnt flesh).

This long weekend, we will be buying a brand new Bar B Q.

No worries about disposing of the old Bar B Q, as they disappear off the front curb in seconds on garbage day.

Almost reminiscent of a dear old friend and his Bar B Q, that caused a chain reaction that lives on in the history of Barrhaven, but that story is for another time.