What happened to the knobs for our stove?

The pot that almost burnt down my house! Actually, it was me, not the pot, nor the stove that almost caused my house to catch on fire. As it was the house filled with smoke. I think I have reported earlier the fact that I sometimes make poor choices and that I forget more than others do, and I cannot figure things out in the same ways I did several years ago. 

So what happened? I needed to make more food for the humming bird migration that comes through Houston this time of year. My back yard will sometimes have a dozen humming birds, humming around looking for food.

To make food for them you boil three/four cups of water for every cup of sugar. When the water reaches the boiling point it binds the sugar so it will not separate when cooled. I saw the pot, the water, and the sugar. I turned on the electric burner to high. I forgot what I had done. I came in the house and smelled something and I attributed it to the fact that someone was cleaning the oven. I looked in the over, I touched it, and then I forgot why I was looking into it and touched it, so I went back outside to work in my garden. Thirty minutes later, my son came over and noticed the house filled with smoke! 

He saved our house from a fiery demise. It still smells of burnt sugar in the house. Luckily for me us the melted aluminum did not burn through the bottom of the stove, the stovetop was red hot my son reported.  

That is why I no longer have access to the knobs for our stove. I make poor choices and I forget more than most. 

Richard