Almost D'd IAF

[DrPizza]

you don't know what the fucking gas smells like?

/thread

Seriously.

 

[DrPizza]

TECHNICALLY.. gas is odorless.

The gas company inserts an odorant to make it more recognizable.

So what you smell isn't gas... but the odorant.
Is it possible his gas company inserted an odorant that smells like cat shit? possible. likely? no.

I believe it's mercaptan that's used.
(edit: fixed spelling; it's an, not in)

From the website of a natural gas distributor:

Mercaptan makes natural gas smell like sulphur, or rotten eggs.

from the OP:

The odor is sulfur-like and it smells like shit or rotten eggs.

I'd say we have a match.

 

[Jeff7]

Yeah, it might be time...

 

[CallMeJoe]

lol...wait
WAIT!
He lit a candle to get rid of the gas smell??
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA

It works.

Very quickly, too, if there's enough gas...

 

[CallMeJoe]

Maybe the candle was helping to neutralize the gas and that's why you didn't get CO poisoning?
(I dunno, does CO just become CO2 when it combusts? Maybe it's not even part of the reaction...)

CO is the product of incomplete combustion of carbon; if there's sufficient oxygen combustion produces carbon dioxide; if there's not it produces carbon monoxide.

Natural gas only produces carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide if it burns.

 

[Jeff7]

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!

 

[caddlad]

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!

No splode...:thumbsdown:

 

[grohl]

I lol'd at the thread title.

yep me too

 

[rudeguy]

I was feeling kind if queasy for a while and could not figure out why. When I opened the windows, the queasiness subsided. Imagine that.


Peace

Lounatik

:thumbsup:

glad you're ok man.

Yes we are giving you a hard time but that's only because you are safe and no serious damage happened.

Seriously man...glad you, your family and your house are ok. I'm pretty sure from here on out, you have free range to fart whenever you want. Your wife has no room to complain about your gas 😀

 

[CurseTheSky]

If I were you, I'd get down on your knees and pray to whatever deity you believe in just to say thanks for letting me not DIAF tonight. If you don't believe in a deity, then go grovel at the feet of whoever's idea it was to put give methane / natural gas an odor.

Glad everything worked out ok. If you have ANY kind of gas appliance in your house (stove, hot water heater, etc.) it's very important to be able to recognize the smell. Just flicking on a light can be enough to cause an explosion in a room full of gas.

 

[BoomerD]

If there was no fire...and you weren't nearly trapped in said fire, you can't claim to have

Almost D'd IAF.

Sorry...it just doesn't work that way.

You MAY have been in a situation that COULD have resulted in a fire and/or gas explosion...in which case you might have been able to make such a claim, but in the circumstances as posted...not.

How the fuck does anyone who has natural gas, NOT know WTF it smells like? It smells nothing like cat poop...but more like strong garlic or rotten eggs, depending on what your gas company uses.
Mercaptan is the most common, and it gives otherwise odorless natural gas a distinct "rotten egg smell."

 

[Pheran]

you don't know what the fucking gas smells like?

This was my first reaction too.

OP, it's time to invest in a gas stove which has a safety feature to prevent this. Seriously, you got lucky this time, you can't really afford to test this again.

 

[Away]

Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!