true, i guess, Jase...but i still do not see how he got burns on his face...it looked fine, wheras you could clearly see the scalp where there had been fire.
when i was in HS, we used to go to a little greasy spoon a block around the corner from my school,where we could hang out, order food, drink coffee and smoke cigarettes between classes, for lunch or after school.
it had regular sort of back to back dine sitting, with booths, and i was sitting in one booth and my two friends were across from me...since my side was only me, i sat horizontally, stretching out my legs and my left hand was resting along the top of the both, dividing our booth from the next one...i had a cigarette in my right hand, on the table, and in my left hand, i had my cigarette lighter, which i was just casually flicking on and off...any way, the girl right next to me in the next booth, Tanya, who had tons of product in her hair (it was 1985, so she was trying to look like Madonna) sure enough, a spark hit her hair, and it just started going up really fast...we were all really stunned at first, everyone started shouting, she had no clue and was looking around really fast...i am screaming "stay still" and trying to whack her in the head where the fire is to stomp it out...her girlfriends in the booth are shrieking in typical, totally not calm jewish princess manner, not really helping the situation, just going "AHHHHHHHH!!!!" "Oh MY GOD!!!!"
My friend were laughing hysterically, and she is moving her head side to side not knowing what was going on as i was hitting her in the back of the head...the whole restaurant is seeing this and laughing, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, and probably starting to approach the scalp as the entire back of the permed hair is going up, my hitting is not working and finally with my right hand i grabbed my friends huge Vanilla milkshake and dumped it on her head.
Fire out, problem solved. She was not happy at all....but everyone was laughing. fortunately there was no damage to her skin at all, but i would say half of the hair on the back of her head was gone or so badly singed it needed to be cut off....not to mention her entire head was covered with Vanilla Milkshake.
anyway, once she got over the initial shock and embarassment, she went down to Astor Place the next day and they gave her a really cool punk-haircut, shaving the back and stuff, sort of like Debbie Harry...so it all worked out in the end. :biggrin1:
