Did you see the smoke signals my husband sent?

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I wish I had thought to grab my camera, but then again, at the time it happened he didn't think it was all that funny....here's the rest of the story... My husband put a nice thick porterhouse steak on the grill and walked inside. I went out to the grill (which is on our back porch) and used the pepper grinder and added some sea salt. I sat the grinder on the shelf to the side of the actual cooking area. About 10 minutes later I heard, "Oh no" followed by a bunch of words I can't use here. I looked out and all I saw was smoke. When I stepped outside he was standing there with the pepper grinder in this had and the lid was off the steak was coated in whole pepper corns. He turned on the two ceiling fans and headed inside. It seems the heat from the grill softened the container and when he tried to grind all heck broke loose! Within seconds the smoke was so thick I could hardly see the grill and it was drifting out through the screens and it looked and smelled bad! He managed to scrape the peppercorns off the steak - most of them anyway! I now have every ceiling fan in the house running since the smell is throughout the entire place. Thank goodness he has a sense of humor so no harsh words were directed at me for putting the container so close to the heat. The photo of the grill is mine but not from today and it's actually a grill from a few years ago.