The Lighter and the Bonfire

My mom and I were just talking and she reminded me of a time I was at one of Vince's barbecues. By the way I loved Vince's BBQ's, they were pretty chill and normally it was all of the group that came. Anyway, my mom was telling me a story about when she was a kid and a friend of her's Christmas tree burned down because they got it too early and it dried out so when they flipped on the lights Christmas morning the branch caught on fire and burned their whole house down. She said the only thing left standing was the fireplace and a toilet. Anyway it made me reminisce of the time at the BBQ where I looked to John and thought of the brilliant idea to take someone's lighter and toss it into the bonfire we had. Well I remember grabbing the blue lighter, getting up from the brick seat, walking over to the fire, and throwing it so hard into the deep set of burning wood. For a second I felt it was going to explode any moment so as anyone would do, I hope, I backed up quickly and awaited the extravagant explosion. A minute passed... "Hmmmmm," I pondered.

"Did  I ACTUALLY throw it into the pit?"

I can't remember who was next to me but we both crept over to the stone pit and peeked our head's over to spot the location of the blue lighter. At this scouting moment we appeared to be extremely startled when the rush of heat, that singed our hair and eyebrows, engulfed our entire upper torso. Ah there it was, it was sitting in there the whole time. It just waited for us to peek our nosy heads over to see where it was.

Lesson? Well next time I decide to do this, throw a lighter into a bonfire, I will be patient till the explosion occurs.