you can't make this stuff up...

About 5 years ago, my Wife and I bought a "faux" fireplace. She actually found it on WalMart's website.




It uses cans of gel fuel that get placed behind a "faux cement log"...    well... recently, my Wife switched the brand of gel fuel. She likes it, because it "smells better" than the other kind... and she's VERY sensitive to chemical/petroleum type odors. She had the fireplace lit this afternoon, while I was out bench running my Speed Contest engine on the deck... I came in after a rather frustrating session, washed the Sig Champion 25 off my hands... and went downstairs into my workshop. Hmmm..   I could still smell glow fuel... I must have gotten some on my sweatshirt..    oh well... A while later, I went back upstairs.. and you'd swear that I was running the engine in the living room!    The gel fuel smells exactly like glow fuel!!   We've been using the new fuel since last Fall.. and I never made the connection, because I hadn't run an engine since early last year.

So..    now I'll be able to run my engines in my workshop.. (when she's not home..   ) and she won't suspect a thing!!