Will the Bic flick?
July 18th, 2008 by Eric Snider in Urban ExplorationsSo I’m sitting on my back deck naked — it’s fenced in, by the way – after a night at Tampa Theatre in which I saw a transcendent show by Shelby Lynne and then got kicked in the teeth after I waited more than an hour to meet her and get her to sign my cover story and she bagged on me, and I’m a little cranky, but I figure I’ll have another drink. And a smoke. My wife’s out of town. It’s completely still, the moss hanging from the trees is not moving a milimeter.
I look over and see this Bic lighter on the table. It’s been there for at least two months — in the sun and all the rain we’ve had lately. I figure this thing is waterlogged and sun-beaten for weeks on end, will it light? I pick it up, click it once, just a spark, click it twice, a spark, click it three times, and the thing fires up.
You go, Bic lighter. Used to be “lighters up” at rock concerts. Now it’s “cell phones up.” I like “lighters up” way better.
I put my one-dollar Bic lighter in a dresser drawer, knowing I can count it.
July 18th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Did we really need to know you were naked? I just threw up in my mouth a little.
July 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Yeah, and weren’t you worried about mosquito bites in unusual places? Or did you put on some bug repellent first? Wow, I just threw up in my mouth a little too…
July 18th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
But you haven’t seen me naked. You might have really enjoyed it, especially Ben.
July 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Shelby did the same thing at the XPN festival in Camden, NJ on the 13th. She was set to do a meet & greet after her show. About 50 people stood in line, in very hot, humid weather, waiting for her. She never came out, security just told us the meet & greet was cancelled. Fans were very disappointed. Shelby is very talented, but according to a Shelby insider, gets pissed off after her shows. Joan Osborne who played the festival too, was the opposite: very nice to her fans, doing a long meet & greet.