1. The home is a tad cold and you dont worry about it as you have been
using oil ;
2. You decide its because the house is poorly
insulated and the wind is picking up early in the evening.
3. You have not heard the boiler kick on in a while and you
don't give it a second thought.
4. The radiators are not warm and you go back to no. 3.
5. You put a heavier cotton work shirt on and dont give it a second
thought.
6. A bit later you think you have a heating problem.
7. You press the reset switch on the third Riello burner you have owned in 28
years and it does not fire.
8. You decide to check the expensive double wall oil tank that lost 75
gallons of capacity due to the change from bittom draw to top draw due
to the repeated instances of crap and algae affecting the oil burner and
killing it during the heating season 2 years ago.
9. Eureka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. You take the coffe can that protects the fuel gauge from ice and snow
slides off of the fuel gauge.
11. The fuel tank is empty and you decide that its time to change your
supplier who had recently gone through a buy out and reorganization
shedding offices and employees centralizing its operations and eliminating
fuel depots.
12. You plan on attending the train show anyway as the wood boiler is
working.
The fuel tanks empty, the story is again beginning anew with the renewed budget billing plan you have been faithfully paying for for years with repeated empty tank episodes.............................................................
Uh HUH.