Safety Issue

Boyfriend: Why doesn't this gas valve underneath the trailer work?
Hubby: *gets out tools, hoses
Boyfriend: *gets out portable propane stove he wants to use outside the trailer. You know - the kind you can use on the picnic table.
Me: Just leave it the way it is. Use the portable stove on the picnic table.
Boyfriend: No - it might be a safety issue!

*much tinkering
Hubby: There's a valve under here...
Boyfriend: Yes, I know, but when you connect it, there's no "pshhhht!"
Hubby: The valve is open. Give me your patant from your stove.
Boyfriend: *gets portable propane stove connector.

*connector being attached.

Hubby: That's no good - we need a valve that will let us let some gas out. Go get the propane torch I use for plumbing and unscrew the valve from that.
Boyfriend: I don't know what you're talking about or where to find it.

Hubby *climbs up from under trailer, shambles off to get the valve off his propane torch.

Me: Just LEAVE IT! Use the stupid stove on the picnic table!

Boyfriend, Hubby: NO!

Hubby comes back with the valve from his torch and the sparker.

Neighbour, walking by with his dog: Something exciting going on?
Me: Boyfriend has just opened the gas and Hubby is trying to light a spark at the other end.
Neighbour: *keeps on walking, a little quicker

Hubby: There's gas! Did you hear that?
Me: Unfortunately
Boyfriend: No.

Hubby: *keeps trying to light the end of the valve with the sparker.
Hubby: *keeps trying
Hubby: *keeps trying
Hubby: No there doesn't seem to be any gas escaping at all. [Editorial note: I guess it wasn't a safety issue after all!]

Much clutter being picked up, coiled up, put away.

How's retirement, you ask? Well, tonight my two *smart men* tried to blow up the trailer we just bought!

How was YOUR evening?!