That meant you were cool
I played with matches, too. Once, when I was about 7 years old, I was under the covers, in my bed -- like a little tent, and was burning matches. My mother smelled them and pulled the covers off and asked what was going on? (She didn't exactly say it that way) There are all these burned out matches, and I said -----"I don't know how they got there!!!!!" LOL!