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Not my gas

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This one is just an Honourable Mention, and impossible to verify, but...

When my dad was younger, he worked for a fuel company, delivering oil and gasoline to rural customers.

Valves on the customer's old tanks would tend to get rusty, so would take some effort and "percussive maintenance" (hitting with a hammer) to work them. They were quipped with brass hammers to do this work, because smacking brass on steel would not spark, and that's never a good idea near explosives.

One day my dad saw his partner sitting on top of such a fuel tank, fighting with a stubborn valve, hitting it with a steel crowbar. My dad quickly yells at him to stop, and says he has to use the brass tools for that, because "steel on steel causes spark, and you're sitting on a take full of gas!"

The co-worker shrugged his shoulders and replied "It's not my gas.", and continued to work with the crowbar.

Thankfully, nothing happened, and both the co-worker and my dad survived to procreate.

Submitted on 05/29/2005

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