Background: Twice a month, we have a cleaning service come to scour our house. We have a 16 month old, and we both work full time, so the amount of cleaning we'd need to do would eat up our only free time and weekends. It's not very expensive ($50 per visit), and I somehow feel the need to justify this to everyone, due to the economic climate. It's more for my wife, who works extremely hard, and I want her to enjoy her time with our child as much as she can. I will point out that I do mow my own lawn, and do all of the general landscaping/house upkeep myself. OK, now I feel justified...
So, yesterday, the two ladies from the service came to clean. My wife came home to find the house FULL of gas. They must've left a stove knob turn on when they were cleaning it. She opened all the windows to let it air out. It still smelled in our bedroom, which is right behind the old fireplace that has a propane log in it. Well, the knob on the propane log had also been left slightly on, with the pilot light out. Good thing to know that they clean out the fireplace too. Great. Then, she noticed that her little, what she calls, a tart warmer (wickless candle warming contraption) was missing. Well, the base of it was. The cup that holds the tart thingy was still there, but the base was gone. She's never even used it, so it wasn't a big deal. She called up the company, and explained all of this. Obviously, they offered some kind of compensation, etc. Fine. But, the house could've exploded, ya know? Jeebus!
Then, this morning, I go to fill up one of my tanks with some new juice that I'd ordered from The Vapor's Knoll. I'd ordered 4 juices from them last Friday, one of them being some crazy stuff they call Oba Oba. I keep all my juice in an old humidor that sits on the same cabinet as that tart warmer thing. Wouldn't you know it, but the Oba Oba was missing, and my neatly organized juice bottles were all disturbed. I looked all over for it, wondering if SOMEHOW I'd not put it in the humidor. I know that wasn't possible, because of VapeMail excitement, and the compulsive need to have all my vape hobby supplies all organized and nice to look at. Well, it dawned on me that the cleaning ladies MIGHT have opened up my stash, and thought all my juice was aromatic oils, meant to be warmed in that tart warmer thing. Sure enough, I pick up the warming cup, and smell it. All sweet, and fruity. So now I'm thinking, "No wonder these idiots left the gas on, and broke the damn tart warmer! They filled the house with a whole bottle of nic juice, and got all loopy!".
Actually, I know that's probably not reason that they left the stove/log on. That was probably just a mistake. But, being a new convert to vaping, and in the OCD phase of all thing vapor, wouldn't you know that I was more upset that they used my whole bottle of juice, than the prospect that the house could've exploded?
So, yesterday, the two ladies from the service came to clean. My wife came home to find the house FULL of gas. They must've left a stove knob turn on when they were cleaning it. She opened all the windows to let it air out. It still smelled in our bedroom, which is right behind the old fireplace that has a propane log in it. Well, the knob on the propane log had also been left slightly on, with the pilot light out. Good thing to know that they clean out the fireplace too. Great. Then, she noticed that her little, what she calls, a tart warmer (wickless candle warming contraption) was missing. Well, the base of it was. The cup that holds the tart thingy was still there, but the base was gone. She's never even used it, so it wasn't a big deal. She called up the company, and explained all of this. Obviously, they offered some kind of compensation, etc. Fine. But, the house could've exploded, ya know? Jeebus!
Then, this morning, I go to fill up one of my tanks with some new juice that I'd ordered from The Vapor's Knoll. I'd ordered 4 juices from them last Friday, one of them being some crazy stuff they call Oba Oba. I keep all my juice in an old humidor that sits on the same cabinet as that tart warmer thing. Wouldn't you know it, but the Oba Oba was missing, and my neatly organized juice bottles were all disturbed. I looked all over for it, wondering if SOMEHOW I'd not put it in the humidor. I know that wasn't possible, because of VapeMail excitement, and the compulsive need to have all my vape hobby supplies all organized and nice to look at. Well, it dawned on me that the cleaning ladies MIGHT have opened up my stash, and thought all my juice was aromatic oils, meant to be warmed in that tart warmer thing. Sure enough, I pick up the warming cup, and smell it. All sweet, and fruity. So now I'm thinking, "No wonder these idiots left the gas on, and broke the damn tart warmer! They filled the house with a whole bottle of nic juice, and got all loopy!".
Actually, I know that's probably not reason that they left the stove/log on. That was probably just a mistake. But, being a new convert to vaping, and in the OCD phase of all thing vapor, wouldn't you know that I was more upset that they used my whole bottle of juice, than the prospect that the house could've exploded?
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