# Do NOT burn matches in a public restroom, you moronic snatch! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 5, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558 "2002-07-05T23:56:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kegg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kegg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kegg)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/41 "2002-07-08T10:35:42Z")
I wouldn’t light a match in some bathrooms I’ve been in. I’m supprised they didn’t explode when the light was turned on. ---
**Author:** ![crazy4chaucer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@crazy4chaucer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazy4chaucer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/42 "2002-07-08T14:08:01Z")
At least someone else didn’t light the match for her . . . 😃 I think the match-lighting thing is cultural. Mr. crazy4chaucer is of Polish descent, and I was astonished after we got married and he’d follow a ripe fart with a lit match. I just about killed him the day he waved a lit match by my backside after I farted – it melted a hole in my blue jeans and burned my skin!!! ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/43 "2002-07-08T14:37:53Z")
How about the possibility of someone smelling something burning and setting off the fire alarm? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/44 "2002-07-09T13:08:47Z")
Most people find the aroma fresh baked bread preferrable, for this reason I always take Flour, yeast, warm water, a mixing bowl and an oven into the stall with me. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/45 "2002-07-09T13:31:14Z")
I think a huge box of matches should be required in every public restroom! ---
**Author:** ![Tiburon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/46 "2002-07-09T13:56:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*(Fenris, they normally aren’t wood in the ladies’. In the average workplace or McDonald’s, they typically are Italian marble or granite. The attendants in the bathroom at Wendy’s, however, told me that _theirs_ was hand-polished Etruscan malachite. Well, I don’t know if that’s true, all I know is it sure was green…) \*\* **Anthracite** , what’re you doing chatting up the bathroom materials with the employees of fast food restaurants? And how the heck did the Wendy’s employees know this? The wealth of knowledge I have let slip through my fingers by simply ordering. 🙂 **Mangetout** , you made me grin! Tibs. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/47 "2002-07-09T16:23:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*How about the possibility of someone smelling something burning and setting off the fire alarm? \*\* This actually happened a store where I used to work. My coworker went to the bathroom in the back and presumably lit a match. The store was right on a corridor to the outside, and someone must have smelt it. The next thing I know, fire fighters are coming to the door. ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/48 "2002-07-09T17:48:11Z")
I’ve seen a couple wooden stalls, but most are metal or (ugh) formica. The wooden ones are in taverns and forest preserves mostly. For the record, this is one of the strangest threads I’ve seen lately. But go ahead and have fun with it! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558/49 "2002-07-10T20:29:50Z")
I don’t think it’s so much a regional or cultural thing, but a generation thing. My grandmother always had a little tray of wooden matches in the bathroom. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-not-burn-matches-in-a-public-restroom-you-moronic-snatch/117558.md?page=2)