#Mike had the matchbook in his pocket ready to go

[driftingvoid-155]

Real reason they burned down the building in fnaf 6 was bc the IRS showed up. They were just gonna let the animatronics run around in that labyrinth of vents hamster style for forever but least to say the moment Mike saw those agents he was quick to pull the ‘fire’ alarm and it wasn’t water that came out of the sprinklers.

[burnbarrelcountry]

"We have ignition"

I smoke Marlboros and pretty much always have a lighter in my pocket.

But I'm pretty partial to matches when I burn my trash. That is probably because when I was growing up, my family and all my relatives who lived out in the country had a big box of kitchen matches in the drawer, pretty much there for the one purpose of burning the trash with. I even used to call them "the garbage matches" when I was a kid. I'd help my mom or dad take out the trash and I'd say, "you want me get the garbage matches?" I even remember the brand. At my house we used Diamond matches, but my grandma bought Blue Tip matches.

Those matches were pretty handy, too. Back in those days, they were always strike-anywhere matches, so you only had to grab a match or two and not take the whole box when you took out the garbage. And the inside of a rusty trash barrel had just the right scratchiness to light one with. You could usually just reach in and strike one on the side of the barrel and if you'd positioned your striking point under an overhang of paper in the trash, just hold it there for a couple of seconds till the paper caught then just let it drop. Of course, lighting a match in front of other guys, you had to be more tough about it, maybe strike it on the fly or rivet of your Levi's or do the fist-snap (holding it upright in your first and popping your thumbnail across the match head). Striking on the barrel was OK, too, just anything other than striking on a box, which marked you as a wuss.

My cousin Mike was a little older than me and he was a trash-burning master, being old enough not to have to get a match from the box of garbage matches because he always had his OWN matches in his pocket, a small box of Diamond wood matches.

I remember when I was in high school one of my city cousins came to stay with us for a week. The trash was by that time my daily chore at home but he wanted to burn the trash with me, so I figured since he was playing country boy, why not. He lit the match and set it to the trash and then, I kid you not, shook out the match. That's what you call amateur hour. I was always of the mind that just let the lit match drop into the trash once you've got a spot lit. In fact, frankly half the time you have a spot lit, it'll burn out. But with those kitchen matches, if you let a lit one drop down into the trash, it'll keep burning till something catches. A lot of the times, that's the spot that actually catches, not the one you actually purposely set the match to. Even now, sometimes I don't even bother to set the match to anything, I just light it and let it fall in because that'll do the job.

Kitchen matches were so ingrained as the way to burn trash that one time at my aunt's house, she asked if I would take it the garbage and burn it, and I said sure and she said the matches were in the drawer. So I looked and didn't see a box so I said she must be out. She came in and opened the drawer and said no they were right there and pulled out a matchbook and handed it to me. That was probably the second time I had ever lit a paper match, and it took a few tries but I got the trash fire lit.

These days I still like to burn my trash with kitchen matches. Just something about the nostalgia I like. I can't find the strike-anywhere ones very often, though. I think it's been a few years since I've seen those. My next choice would be a Zippo lighter. My next choice after that is paper matches. I'm OK with them, but they are just pretty prone to blowing out on their own, so it really takes a different technique with paper matches. Just like when you have to cup your hands to light a cigarette with one, you need to get the matchbook in a lighting position under an overhang of paper in the trash, strike the match while cupping your free hand around it at the same time and set it to the paper you are lighting and keep it cupped until you've got a good flame going, which by that time the match will be burning down to your fingers. But hell, it sure gets the job done. My last choice would be a plastic lighter. Well, actually my real last choice would be one of those long lighters for lighting a fireplace with. I guess they work, but just seem pretty wussy, like you're afraid of getting too close to the flame or something.

On another matter, I am just about ready for a good brush pile fire. I did a little bit of brush clearing over the summer and got it all piled up and all the wood is pretty well dead and dried out by now. My brother is going to clean out his storage unit and whatever he doesn't want, I told him don't bother hauling it to the dump, just bring it out and toss it in the pile and we'll pour a little diesel on it and light it up. He's always up for a good trash fire since he's a city boy now as of a few months ago and doesn't get to burn trash anymore after basically doing it all his life. Well except sometimes when he is over at my place and after we eat and clean up, we will take the trash out back to burn and have a couple of cigarettes like old times. I told him to hurry up and bring his shit out here before we get another burn ban, so I expect I will shoot video since it will be a big burn.