Lighter thieves. Own up if you've ever .....

[99%]

Lighter thieves.

Own up if you've ever "taken" home a lighter after a bong session with others.

I'm definitely guilty, as a matter of fact at one time among mates of mine, it was a fun "competition" during most bong sessions.so long as there was more than one lighter. This unspoken game was that lighters were "open season" and so everyone tried to pocket the other lighters on the table by trying to get everyone so high they forgot the plot and went home lighter-less...so there was lots of "..and you can take my lighter out of your pocket and give it back to me.." or cracks of laughter after they left and you showed the others still there his lighter. yeah!

 

[dread]

guilty......

 

[stoned-trout]

if you haven't you don't smoke enough....yeehaw... I have a lighter leash...

 

[99%]

for a seasoned lighter thief like myself, it used to usually be easy to grab an extra one or two with a 5 or 6 person session, but with two it's a much better game, especially if the opponent is into it with the same competitive spirit as you are.

more often than not we would return the lighter just before we left with a "Hey catch...gotcha again"

 

[Lester Beans]

Of course, constantly, but I save them and give them back lol.

Now I have a friend who never has a lighter, borrows one and immediately hands it to someone else. So I call him the lighter broker, he only has it for a sec and poof its gone. Haha this is why I buy them by the block of 50. Smoking with the wife or just myself, I use a clipper lighter or my vector mini. Hemp wick. And outside magnifying glass. Steal that ha!

 

[blastfrompast]

Oh it is a game in these parts too..

But we have taken it to a diff level... we also play the "Bait and Switch" game.... Swap their good lighter with yours that is empty or damn near empty..

They get home..go to light up..and no fuel...LOL....gotta use the stove again to light the joint..bwhahha..

 

[orev]

never did that on purpose...
pocketed many lighters in my days... all as in innocent mistake
i allways keep my lighter in my pocket cause i don't want ppl stealing my lighters...
so once in a while i pocket one that isn't mine... usually when i find out i'll probably call the owner and tell 'em i have it and will bring it back the next time i see them

 

[huligun]

Sometimes I really Hate Lighter Thieves.

Some of them do that as some kind of sickness. One chick I know thinks it is so funny to collect lighters. I have yelled at her for it.

I know a chick that kind of got in trouble for having like 10 lighters at security at the airport All stolen lighters mind you, I was taking care of her for a month. Anyway, security Did let her in with the lighters. I was a bit surprised.

Myself, shame get the best part of me. I can't do it. Getting caught would be too shameful for me.

 

[wegobigupnorth]

I too had a friend that thought of it like a fucking game. He had literally hundreds of lighters as in high school he had the house where the parents didn't give a shit what went on under the roof so every lunch hour 30 kids would cram into this tiny ass house to get high and anyone that took out a lighter would be going back to school without it. It really pissed me off as of course this guy would snap if ya tried to steal one of his stolen lighters...even if it was orignally yours!

 

[blastfrompast]

As long as everyone knows they are playing the game it is fun... I don't steal lighters from people who don't play the game, but with my Friday night hoot buddies.... it is GAME ON.

I do know one asshole tho who steals your papers he is so cheap, he will also try and collect any bits of loose bud on the table for his "stash tin" when he thinks people are not looking.... He is a douche.

 

[stoned-trout]

yeehaw

 

[MelloYello]

It was over 35 years ago, I took my bong to a keg party and ate a few blue valium.


Woke up with 17 lighters in my pocket. Yep, 17 lighters.

 

[Ganjaganjakush]

I have a 6x4x4 inch plastic tub full of lighters...probably paid for 1 of them oops

 

[Gry]

I will tell you my dumb lighter story. When i was a kid they just had come out with the damn colibri touch lighter. First time I had seen a micro switch. They had done a commercial that showed a butterfly landing on the damn thing to set it off, god knows how the hell they shot that footage back before digital effects. I need to look that up and see who did the footage, it was amazing. As was the damn product, it was so different than anything that had ever been before.
They were pretty damn expensive when they first came out, but they came down by about a third over the next year or so. They were great for bong use and I may have bought as many as 20 of them for gifts etc over the years.
My liking for neat lighters is now satisfied with the amazing slide lighter.

Never lost one of the touch lighters, but did find out the hard way they were not compatible with my work and they got left beside the bong. Out of the house it was matches.

 

[Stoner4Life]

I don't smoke cigs so it's unnatural for me to automatically pocket lighters, not so with most of my friends though.

one night Jack & Buck were over here getting high off my stash, both of those fuckers smoked and yet neither had any fire of their own on them that night. I kept on having to slam my hand down on my table loudly demanding for the lighter to be put back down so I could use it.

I promised both those fucking clowns (more than once) that if either one of them left with my lighter the culprit would never toke my kind bud again, and both those bozo's swung by here often. That was my last lighter and @ 2:00am the nearest store open was 10 miles away, 20 round trip.

yup, Buck was the last to use the Bic and took it down the road, I called him but he wouldn't turn around as he was almost home, he lived in that town where the open store was. So down the road I go, hit the C-store for a couple of Bics and then remembering what a scumbag his landlord was/is I went over to his apartment, parked in his gravel driveway and started blasting my horn @ 2:30am.

Buck lived downstairs, his landlord lived above and his lights came on immediately. I started yelling gibberish like I was drunk but clearly yelling "BUCK!!!" and laughing wildly. I took off spinning my wheels spraying Bucks truck in gravel, his landlord was hot.

we haven't really spoken since 8-9 yrs maybe?

 

[Stoner4Life]

Oh it is a game in these parts too..

But we have taken it to a diff level... we also play the "Bait and Switch" game.... Swap their good lighter with yours that is empty or damn near empty..

They get home..go to light up..and no fuel...LOL....gotta use the stove again to light the joint..bwhahha..

a good game I/we used to partake in also.

my roofing boss used to put a spot of tar on the bottom of his lighter to mark it, lighters in bars didn't last long but Barry always kept an eye on his. oddly enough he never paid for a single one, his dad was a dentist and gave him all the lighters left behind in the waiting room (1980s) by the smokers.

 

[Stoner4Life]

he will also try and collect any bits of loose bud on the table for his "stash tin" when he thinks people are not looking.... He is a douche.

reminds me of Ray , now dead. He'd walk into your place and look in the ashtray first, if he saw a roach he'd ask, "you gonna smoke that?" But there was NO correct answer, if you said "no" he took that as no, never and he'd pocket it (or try to); if you said "yes" he'd spark it up w/out asking if you meant now or later, needless to say Ray never had any weed of his own.

there were times when cash and weed were tight, when ray-ray pulled up you hid your ashtrays.......

 

[WelderDan]

I once went to a party, and my lighter had died earlier that day so I didn't have one when I got there. So, I was bumming lights (I smoked cigs at the time, and had a bunch of pre-rolled joints.) I was drinking heavily. So every time I bummed a light, I stuck the lighter in my pocket after lighting up, as was my habit. But since I started out without a lighter, and I was pretty bombed, I kept thinking I didn't have a lighter and kept bumming lights. At one point, I had an unlit cig in my mouth, and a lit one in my hand and was asking for a light. Hell of a party I gotta say.

The next morning, I had 6 lighters.

 

[99%]

pocketed many lighters in my days... all as in innocent mistake

yeah sure

Woke up with 17 lighters in my pocket. Yep, 17 lighters.

That's gotta be a World Record.

 

[99%]

The next morning, I had 6 lighters.

A fine haul, I'd be proud of that

when ray-ray pulled up you hid your ashtrays.......

I'd set the dogs on him until he got the hint...seriously,why would you allow this kind of loser into your life more than once?