Looking cool, or something

[azurelunatic]

At one point the Renaissance Man discovered that in California, small lighters are "smoking paraphernalia" and are therefore age restricted to 18+. Barbecue lighters are not. Even if all you're lighting is a candle.

Now contemplate the mental image of the kids out smoking in back of the school, lighting the cigarettes with a long-ass bbq lighter.

"Maybe if you had a long cigarette holder?" I suggested, and tried to mime same.

The Renaissance Man's description of the negative coolness factor of this look cannot be printed by this publication. "Only if you had like a velour suit," he conceded, touching off another round of hilarity.

Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be on fire. Or use bbq lighters on cigarettes. Which is possibly the same thing.

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[azurelunatic]

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[mmegaera]

ROFL

[azurelunatic]

This naturally led into the story of that time we found the glow in the dark spraypaint next to the Halloween temporary spray in hair color.

[silveradept]

Hehe. That is an amusing picture, and I can definitely see teens doing it anyway, just to get their cigarettes.

[azurelunatic]

I was chatting with a friend who sometimes smokes, and the connection was a little shaky but I think she mentioned doing this very thing within the past week sometime, mostly because she doesn't smoke often enough to be 100% certain of where she's put the appropriate fire.

[silveradept]

Ah. Most smokers I know of solve that problem by having enough fire in the house to burn it down repeatedly.

[azurelunatic]

She smokes on an irregular, once a week or so basis, so hasn't reached saturation point on fire.

I have a zillion hairbrushes and can still only find two.