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To: Ghost of SVR4

You and I are on the same page...

Bic lighter is a good example. Cold day and I’m sitting by a nice fire eating some nice deer steaks. I have several Bic lighters and this guy comes up and offers to buy a lighter and offers gold because he needs one and it’s cold out. If he’d offered a couple cords of wood or offered to collect some for me he’d get a lighter... probably to use or I’d let hit take some fire coals home to start a fire. I’d look around and I’d see no need for coins or a rock.

Stop by and we’ll enjoy a deer steak and reminisce about this guy we knew that froze to death while trying to eat gold.


39 posted on 01/22/2014 8:16:23 AM PST by maddog55
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To: maddog55
I don't think people will be trying to buy lighters off strangers in the woods.

Before they wander off into the woods without a fire-making tool they might stop and think about the dangers of exposure: then come and buy one of the hundreds of lighters I have in my prep store.

And perhaps one of my wire-saws and some PJ tinder. And - under the "one is none" rule when it comes to fire-making, a Swedish fire-steel.

If he stops to reminisce, I might tell him about the guy who's happy to trade lighters for wood while he's sitting in a deer forest.

40 posted on 01/22/2014 8:37:09 AM PST by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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