Having fun with gas Tom Smith

This looks like fun, but I don't think I'll do it (make my own glass in my Weber by melting sand and other stuff at 3000' F).  I'm rather proud, however, of my Weber set up.  I have it hooked up directly by (corrosion resistant) underground pipe to my 1000 gallon propane tank and am able to produce very high temperatures if I want to.  But gas and I do not get along all that well.  Just a week ago or so I was lighting the Weber.  I have found it lights more authoritatively if you turn on all three bars before hitting the automatic ignition clicker.  I was doing that, but it was having trouble lighting.  I tried a few times, it didn't light, then I must have gotten distracted for a moment, and then hit the switch again.  It funny how these things happen.  In just the instant before the clicker clicked I was aware that I was doing something extremely stupid, but it was too late to unclick the clicker.  It's almost as if time is not working normally in those moments.  Anyway, I then saw a yellow fireball forming in slow motion between me and grill.  I just had time to form the pious thought "Shit" before my head was briefly engulfed in flames.  But it was very brief and my hair wasn't even singed, but it was startling.  I had another experience like this many years ago in England.  I was staying at some sort of small hotel which had one bathroom for the whole hall.  The hot water heater was this ridiculous thing in which you inserted 10p pieces to heat the water.  I kept inserting 10p pieces and pushing the little red button, but nothing happened.  Then I did it one last time and I found myself sitting across the room with the cover of the thing against my chest. It had exploded. That I did not see coming.  One moment I was trying to get it to work, and the next I was across the room.  Overall, I consider inflammable gas to be a dangerous thing.  Some people say the same about electricity, and for this reason I have resisted the temptation to do electrical experiments in my garage.