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When I was maybe 3 (maybe 4 - it’s a little fuzzy), I remember safety pinning a towel around the collar of my shirt so I could be like Superman (we had recently seen it in the theater). The towel also had frayed ends, and ended up in the ashtray along side my mom’s cigarette. I remember my mom panicking trying to get those safety pins off when the towel caught fire. We never were allowed to safety pin towels to our clothes again after that. 😂

Also I love how my kids know the cigarette lighter in the car as a place to plug in a car charger and nothing else.

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Cigarette lighter? You mean the finger print eraser and “lesson enforcer”? It was always empty when I grew up, seems like every child needed to learn that it was still hot even after the glow had vanished :)

The bic type lighter where everywhere, including in the coin shelf in cars

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I still have a bic lighter, and I quit smoke 10 years ago. Never know when it’ll come in handy.

I also remember when there were cigarette vending machines in restaurants. $1.25/pack and no age verification. 😉

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I still have a bic lighter, and I quit smoke 10 years ago. Never know when it’ll come in handy.

We got one from a gas station for lighting birthday candles. I just got a firepit and went to use it to start a fire and realized I’ve never used one before and had to try a lot of times to actually get it to light.

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I thought the cigarette lighter in the car was a rubber stamp and I’d get the icon marked on my hand.

Yes, I burned myself.

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