I just wanted to eat chocolate ice cream while I listened to live music from two of my favorite musicians. That's how I wound up sitting around the outdoor fireplace at a local eatery one evening. I took my note pad with me and began working on a new lyric while I waited to have my order taken.
In the meantime a gaggle of six very well dressed, attractive young ladies sat down near me around the fire pit. One female was sitting directly underneath a propane heater that had just been switched on by the restaurant staff. The waiter took my order for chocolate ice cream and brought me vanilla with chocolate syrup instead. Good enough.
The waiter delivered a salad to the woman underneath the propane heater. As she ate her salad the fuel from the propane tank began to leak from the top of the heater down the stem. The woman looked at me and said, "I don't think that should be doing that". So I stood up and shut off the heater by turning the valve switch near the base the unit. The leak and the flames stopped.
I sat back down and said,
Six women laughed out loud.
Later I left. The woman thanked me for saving her life. I believe that to be a bit of an overstatement but it's nice to be appreciated for having some common sense. My notes from the evening became "Checkmate"