Saturday, August 30, 2008

You put what in the dryer?

A few years ago, as a tenant in San Francisco, CA, a notice posted in a nearby laundromat warned against drying rubberized articles in the tumble-drum machines. Not as defiance, but rather to tumble out most of the moisture from a skid-proofed bathroom rug, such items would be briefly tumbled anyway under close watch.

However, warnings came in the form of brandished disposable lighters and such lighters abandoned on sidewalks and in the roadway. While staying here with family the same pattern of plastic-lighter discards yet partially filled with fluid has become evident, with one change: a broken, empty plastic lighter case abandoned in the new bike lane a short distance away from Kingswood condos, beside the Vista Pines condo complex.

A tiny receptacle made available, its ignition parts removed? but where is the lighter fluid?

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