Sunny Day

On a totally unrelated note, or maybe it's related because it deals with fire, this happened to me last night.

I was hanging out with my dad and he pulled out some cigarettes, so I was like "Dude, can I steal one of those?". He handed me the cig then leaned in to light it for me. I'm not comfortable with man-on-man cigarette lighting, regardless of the relationship with the firekeeper, nevertheless, I obliged and when he lit the lighter, a six inch flame exploded out of the top and cinged (sp?) my eyelashes and part of my eyebrow over my left eye, and warped my contact lens. If I wasn't wearing a contact, I wonder if I would have had a burned cornea. We were both kind of laughing and freaking out for a while. Smoking is bad for you.

Dude, that's crazy!  It actually warped your contact lens? 

I'm not down with anyone-on-anyone cigarette lighting.  You never can tell if your supposed to move the cigarette to meet the flame or if the flamer is going to move the flame to meet your cigarette.  The only way I've found to avoid this problem is to close my eyes throughout the entire process so that the other person involved knows that they are going to have to do all the legwork to get the cigarette lit.

The flamer, as I've always understood it, is supposed to do all the legwork for the flamee. If they don't it's like you just asked them to do a bunch of excercise they weren't volunteering for in the first place.

I always like lighting a dame's cigarette; it forces physical contact, especially on a windy night.

I think you have it backwards.  The flamer is the keeper of the flame.  The flamee is the recipient of said flame.