Noticed, whilst hanging out with a group of friends and deciding we wanted to make fire, that 1 of us smokes regularly, 1 smokes occasionally if a cig is offered, the rest of us smoke not at all; 4 of us had lighters – 3 non-smokers and the part-time smoker. The regular smoker rarely carries a lighter. The rest of us don’t know WHY we regularly carry lighters, since we don’t light up…
How about the rest of you?
Do you smoke?
Do you carry a lighter?
What do you use the lighter for, if you carry it?
Bonus question: what does your lighter look like?
No.
Yes.
Occasionally I light candles or incense with it.
The one in my purse, which I found on the floor of the mall, has The Rock on it. The one I carry in my pocket and use for incense is clear blue plastic.
Smoking; lighting any one of a hundred candles ( I’ve found those barbarque lighters work best)
Green; 007; pink fantasy; small red; bear; turquoise moon. The weird thing is that I either have 4 lighters in my possesion or none. There is no middle ground.
but some non-smoking friends carry them so they can offer a lite to the opposite sex as a way to break the ice. I never did this because I don’t want to kiss an ashtray - but that’s just me
I don’t smoke but I do usually carry a lighter, just to light other people’s cigarettes or candles or incense. I also have friends who are pyros and I like the whole pouring hot wax onto my skin thing, don’t ask. Right now I have a really cheap lighter with all sorts of pictures of leather stuff on it but I want to get a Zippo engraved with Fairy Princess Kitty.
Little semi-hijack here:
In my eclectic reading habits, I’ve come across quite a few stories of people getting stranded in the forests or in unexpected snow storms, like campers, hikers or even hunters, who nearly died or did die because they had nothing with which to start a fire. With the decrease in smokers, it seems that many exsmokers, among those who never started, stopped carrying lighters. Prior to the no smoking rage, most people carried a lighter, especially anyone who went off into the woods.
Well, I found that little tidbit interesting, even if no one else did.
I light cigarettes, big fat joints, small piles of leaves, garbage cans, import cars, statues of women on horses, dikshunairies, homeless people and pictures of goats riding bicycles.
I collect lighters…so I have many lighters. I have table lighters, lighters that predict the future, lighters that can change the gravitational constant of the universe, lighters that are a part of ashtrays, lighters that won’t let you cross the border without the proper ID papers.
I have many lighters.
Cigarettes (in the bar,) pipe (once in a while at home,) candles (birthday and other.) I used to spend a lot of time working outside, and having a source of fire with you when you’re driving through the bush in Canada in January can be a real lifesaver.
It’s a brushed brass Zippo with an old job name on it, the company logo, and “Trust No One” under the logo. I had these made up for the crew a couple of years ago, and got into a lot of trouble for it (didn’t get permission from the legal department before using the logo.)
A brass Zippo with those two parallel ornamental slashes at the upper right and lower left corners. I also have a standard brushed-chrome Zippo, but I haven’t carried it for a while.
It varies. I collect Zippos. My usual lighter is a brushed steel with an acoustic guitar and my name engraved on it (wedding party gift–I sang), but I also sometimes carry my grandfather’s brass USMC lighter, a few from old oil companies back in the boom days, and on special occasions, my Xmas present from my wife last year, a limited-edition Martin guitar cloissonne (sp?) jobbie. Problem with the last one is that I usually carry my keys in the same pocket as my lighter and they scratch the enamel.
