Letting the Propane Run Out

So I had propane put in my tank on December 28, 2009. I had the same amount put in it a month before that. I realize that from Dec. 28 on it has been colder but I never thought I would run out on the 14th day of January.

I left Thursday night to go to Monroe with my cousin to watch her daughter in the tournament. Any time I leave the house for an extended period of time I usually turn the heat down. I had left at 6 pm and didn't get back until about 10:15 pm.

I walked in the front door and thought geez, I must have really turned the heat down when I left. So I walked over to the thermostat and there it set, still on 70. I thought, oh $hit, surely I have not run out of propane already.

I walked to the kitchen and opened up the closet to the furnace room and there was silence. No furnace pilot on it or the hot water heater.

Holy cow.........what was I thinking. Well, obviously I hadn't been. I've only ran out of any gas two other times in my life. It was for my car. Once was when I was in college, that was long enough ago it hardly even counts. The second time was about 2 years ago on my way to work in Columbia. I had gotten stopped on the way to work that morning for speeding, lucked out and didn't get a ticket, but because I had gotten stopped it was putting my behind and I didn't want to be late for work so I figured up in my head the gallons in my tank, the miles per gallon I got and the miles I had driven and still had to go and thought I had enough to get me to work.

Nope, didn't quite make it. About 2 miles from work, yep, I ran out. So not only was I late, and out of gas, I had to call a co-worker to come pick up my dumb a$$ and take me to work. Then at lunch we got a gas can and went and got my car.

Well, I have in the first time in my life ran out of propane. The only thing I can say is thank goodness mother nature had let up for a few days and it wasn't the freezing sub zero temperatures we had been having and it was only me that was gonna suffer thru the night. So I piled on about 6 blankets on the couch and turned on my electric heater and pulled up close to the couch and it really wasn't too bad.

But trust me, I was on the phone first thing in the morning doing what I should have already done, order more propane. I put a little me in this time and I promise to check it more often. The next time I might not get as lucky with the weather.