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1. Easter morning years ago, I had just finished restoration of 1970 MG Midget. I am going to debut the car at the annual Easter Concours show - when I try to start it, no fuel. i hear the fuel pump running, but not pumping or so I thought. I jack up rear wheel, crawl under, pull the line and fuel spills out in my ear. I run into the house, saying I have gasoline in my ear. I head to the kitchen sink, and start using the sprayer to flush my ear. My oldest daugher is home from college on Easter break, and unbeknownst to me, she calls 911. I can't hear much with the water in my ears unitl i notice the paramedics in the kitchen. By then, I had finished flushing my ear and my hearing was starting to return. I tell them I am ok, and my wife gives them most of the candy from my Easter basket before they leave. I get the pump to work, drive to the show and take 2nd place beating out a very pristine Aston Martin.
2. Later that summer, I take the dog and an empty LP gas tank to get the tank refilled. On the way home start to hear a hissing sound and begin to smell the LP gas. Knowing that I am driving a 40 year old British (Lucas) electrical short manufacturing machine, I pull over, shut the car off, and get the dog out. Once again, unbeknownst to me a passerby dials 911 and the fire department arrives. Luckily, I persuaded them not to hose the tank down in a car that had won 2nd in a Concours. They removed it, sprayed it while bleeding it off.