Hmmm , water and gas , hahaha , I remember way waaaaay back when I started out my electrical apprenticeship , the company was switching there trucks from gas to propane , one day at the shop , the boss man suggested that I go empty the 6 or 7 gas tanks into gas containers , you know recycle it !! Well , lifting a large gas tank and getting it into a funnel to go into a gas can isn't the easiest task , needless to say , I had a massive amount of gasoline streaming down the parking lot , of course it was a hot summer day , couldn't leave this mess of gasoline there , so out came the water
Thinking I was safe enough to have a cigarette , the parking lot was douced with gasoline , out comes my smoke , a match and ahhhhh the taste of relaxation , hosing down a parking lot and getting paid for it even
then I tossed the match :O
Well , the WHOOOOOOSH OF FLAMES , shot straight up and down the lot , I swear they reached 15 feet in the air , whoooooooly shit , the drain , THE DRAIN , the city drain , the fricken flames are going towards the drain !!!
Well by this time , the secretaries are all looking threw the window , none of which are on the telephone , staring in amasment at this long haired kid is racing around with a hose to keep the flames away from the drain and the cars , THE CARS , ohhhhh shit , cars have gasoline !!!
Ok so I have a 50 foot hose and the drain is at least 100 feet away , I'm so screwed , this is going to be an epic explosion for sure !!!
Well flames are everywhere and the last person I wanted to see was the boss , he is on the road trying to get into the parking lot , flames , water shooting everywhere , he gets out of his truck and runs up into the shop , comes out with a couple bags , at this time I'm screaming , THE DRAIN , the gas is goin into the drain !!!! He opens a bag and spreads it around , he screams and says grab the other one and get it around the car there , the main fire goes out with a few little ones remaining , what was this magical stuff !!!!
Well of course I had the WHAT HAPPENED ? Question , I told him and he looked at me and , I thought for sure I was fired , no pun intended , fired !! He started to laugh , what the heck was so funny , I just about died here !!! He said he got a call from one of the secretaries , that I had the parking lot up in flames and the play by play he was hearing as he was racing back to the shop was the funniest thing he had ever heard , better then Abbot and Costello , the Anti spill bags that he had shown me to use in case of a fire or oil spill where right by the fire extinguishers , that he had also shown me about a year ago to say the least where right , and he pointed to the sign that said FIRE EXTINGUISHER & the lower one , spill kits , beside the eye washing station !!!
Ohhhhhhh that stuff I proclaimed out of young innocence , he said yeah , the water will lift the gasoline and float it on top , oil product , and when you threw your match into the water , you were actually throwing it into gasoline , ohhhhhhhhh now that makes sense eh
He looked around and saw that I at least had the smarts to have loaded all the old truck gas tanks into one of the trucks and all the gas cans were tucked away in the shop before I lite my smoke
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Sooooooo the point of this story is even though the gas wash washed down and diluted , the chances are still high that if sparked , like I did , you might have an epic ending
My tool of choice for gas lines ;