Smokers: Do you ever accidentally steal your friend's lighter after borrowing it?
 

By sticking it in your pocket due to habit?

am I just a burnout?

discuss

i do it all the time

they always steal mine & i always steal theirs, never purposely tho

Standard activity around here. I don't think we'd know who our friends were if they didn't have our lighters to prove it, lol. We get the fancy lighters...deters theft among the tightest circle. Others tamper with theirs to make them "marked" so they know it's theirs, lol. I have it easy...I just get the stripper guy ones.....none of my friends (mostly guys) even seem to take those.:winkwink:

It always happens with the bics. I'm sure to always get my zippo back.

lighters do rotate, constanty - its no biggie can't call it stealing though
wouldn'd mind having zippo with my name engraved.

i steal them because i cant buy them... you think i have the money for such technology?

:1orglaugh

:2 cents: here's my donation, hun!

I havent bought a lighter in over 3 years, the lighter in my pocket just changes colors every couple days but i always have at least one.

Nothing intentional just seems to happen that way.

LOL, variety is the spice of life, no?

LOL, I just feel bad for the upstream guys who are buying them all. If i didnt have a lighter id buy one, just always seem to have one...

oh well at least i know others poket mine, hences the color changes. Lighter karma i guess. :)

at first after reading this i was like.. "dude, where the fuck can i get a tight ass lighter that changes colors like that!" but then i realized what was going on :(

fucking scammer

all smokers are habitual "peter theives"
thats why when I used to smoke I'd always have a really nice zippo distinct to me and engraved on the back - anyone pinching that lighter always got busted by someone else seeing them with it
I always got it back

teh alternative is to buy PINK lighters - since most smokers who buy BIC's get them in red black or white noone will want to steal your pink lighter :glugglug

Lighters, standard corner store lighters, not zippos, are communal property. Like pens. That's just how it is.

:1orglaugh Its not intentional and people must be ganking from me or else the color wouldn't change.

Lighter Karma will catch up to me soon im sure :helpme

all the time.

:offtopic

I steal my wife's and my mom-in-law's lighters so often that whenever they can't find one they automatically jump all over me whether I took it or not...

Then I stealthily slip it under the edge of an ashtray and say, "Look, I told you I didn't have it!"

I don't usually steal lighters, nor do I smoke..but I put a lot of lighters into circulation.

You guys are too funny, lol.
We have a buddy who is by far the worst...when he's around and someone notices their flame is missing, we don't even have to say a word, everyone looks at him and he turns out his pockets...usually depositing the missing lighter, and two or three others that weren't reported missing yet, lol.

Is it me?

LOL, don't think so...why, you wanna turn your pockets out for me?:Graucho

:glugglug

yeah... accidentally:thumbsup
:1orglaugh

No, I always carry mine, my friends take mine sometimes.

I take zippos too

fucking thives

that always happens and when they do it to me i hate life aftter i foind out that its missing

can i have my lighter back now? :)

eehhhmm, sure, wich one was yours again?

I have a hubcap attached to mine,

they give it back right after they lite up :Graucho

... me wanted to say NO, NO... me wanted to say I am the FRIEND you talked about, not the thief... but i just looked into my purse...and DANG..i have 6 (six) lighters there... i wonder who put them ??? :Graucho

yes, and to be completely honest sometimes it's not an accident

With me it's always an accident. Except with my mom-in-law. When she has two lighters and mine runs out I steal one...

I do it and it happens to me too!

Not anymore, I usually carry 3-4 lighters with me :glugglug

I've quit for over 2 months now, but, yes i did this to my friends or they did it to me; no big deal.

Solution; get a zippo, it will never go missing among your friends, unless they're just theiving bastards :P

Once when I was a teenager I think. Not as an adult though cuz I never leave home unprepared.

LOL, I had a friend who used to say that...
he felt the same about food, drinks and anything else:glugglug

Try lighting your morning smoke with the electric stove because your klepto friend took all of your lighters the night before.:feels-hot

I think most times those who say they just do it really are aware of it when they do it and it's not an accident.

I never take lighters that aren't mine, at most mine gets swapped with someone else but that's usually their doing too because theirs is running low:1orglaugh

ROFL :thumbsup It always happens to me, but I always make sure that my smoking friends get a pack of 10 together with their christmas gift, this prolly makes up for all the lighters I "collected" from them over the year.

pad: you're not old enough to smoke.
Does mommy know?

well I never steal the light on purpose if I forget to return it i will give it back in the next time I meet the person.

It used to happen by accident when I used to smoke years ago.

What he said.

It is just a force of habit, I am used to putting a lighter back in my pocket.

Gotta keep an eye on lighters, they go quick.

Yea, but it's usually not an accident.

Lighter rotation is common practice around my house.. Friends come over, and we've got new ones.. they leave, and we have none....