My Life as a Chimney Sweeper

Our refrigerator runs on gas here. That means you have to change gas bottles and mess with the "striker" and all these other things that sound technical but really just get you dirty. If a particular gas bottle isn't burning very cleanly, soot builds in the pipes behind the frig. Currently the gas bottle on our frig is causing so much soot that I have to clean it out everyday. Basically what happens during this process is I first squeeze behind the frig getting soot all over the bottom of my feet. Then I remove a couple of pipes from behind the frig and clean them out with a special brush. This causes soot to fly everywhere, kinda forming a black cloud all around me....awesome. Then I have to clean up all the chunks of soot while in the process making black footprints all over the kitchen. I have become pretty professional at cleaning soot and even change into a special chimney sweep outfit everyday. I always get Mary Poppins flashbacks of the chim chiminey scene while performing my daily chore. After everything is done, I relight the frig, wash my hands for about 15 min, and then go outside and wash my feet. Hopefully this won't be the routine everyday for the next two years.....ugh.