Zippo Tip

Here’s a useful tip for all smokers that use a Zippo lighter. Well, it’s probably something that every Zippo owner knew all along except for me and if that’s the case it’s simply because physics was never one of my strong subjects.

I’ve had a Zippo lighter now for coming up two years. This is sold as a ‘windproof’ lighter, guaranteed to fire up anywhere in just about any conditions. Unless I’m the one using it that is. For two years this bloody lighter has worked every time except when I am out. I walk the dogs across the local fields, the lighter wont work. Nothing made it work. I got a sore thumb trying. Yet as soon as I was home it would light up again. Every time. Didn’t even need wind or rain to stop it. It just wouldn’t work.

And it took me two years to figure it out. When I am at home, my cigarettes and lighter lay beside me on a coffee table. When I am in the car they sit in one of those little trays between the seats. But when I go out walking, I put them in the breast pocket of my jacket. The difference is that I always put the lighter in my breast pocket upright. I finally figured out that if I put it in the pocket upside down -- it works every time.

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