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Like a pediatrician rounding on cystic fibrosis children in the hospital and smoking at their bedside. That's what the early 1980s were like. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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. 😉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They’re pretty shit for lighting anything that’s not cigarettes or similar. They burn the fuck out of your finger if held any orientation but vertical which makes lighting a campfire annoying. Gotta light the kindling in your hand then place it under the wood once lit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

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.