Hot thing is hot.
I was young and inquisitive. Stupid you may say; accurately most likely, but it was harder to tell the difference at that age.

I'd seen my parents use the cigarette lighter in the car many times. They'd push the middle bit, wait a while and when it pops out they'd remove it from its little hidey hole and light their smoky sticks with it; filling the car with noxious fumes that made me feel sick, but strangely less anxious and irritable, as though a nagging longing had been satiated.

One day they were to leave me alone in the car, probably to pop into the shops or something. Why my brothers weren't there I can't say, but I was certainly alone, most definitely bored and really quite up for practising some of that stupidity I mentioned so much earlier on, if you care to remember. I pushed the lighter in and waited for it to pop back out, which it was kind enough to do after only a short pause. I pulled it from its house and wowed at the little glowing discs that decreased towards its fiery middle. Before long the glowing subsided and my brain, pig-thick as it was, told my hand it must surely be ok to place my little finger onto the thing: "Look at it, all not glowing and stuff, its as cold as an old poo" my mind suspected and my hand agreed, pushing pinkie onto the metal plate.

The following week my mum took me to see E.T. and still my finger fully out-glowed his.
( Moey, Sun 1 Aug 2010, 23:39, 7 replies)

I did
EXACTLY the same thing. Had a target shaped fingerprint for a year
(Bommer remembered to log in, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 2:35, closed)

I used my thumb.
(lord nose, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 7:57, closed)

Me too, completely forgot-
this has just reminded me....
So, have most b3tards done this as children then?
( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 10:00, closed)

*Holds hand up*
Yep
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 12:54, closed)

I did it as an adult.
How else was I supposed to know it was hot?
( speedyballbangpots, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 15:09, closed)

I did the same thing
then tried to cool my finger down. How to do this? By sucking on it- it works when I've burnt it on a hot fork or knife.

Unfortunately, I was less well-coordinated than I am nowadays. So instead of putting my finger in my mouth, I put the cigarette lighter in there instead.
And still, about 20 years later, the tip of my tongue's numb and the end of my finger is bumpy and blistered.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 8:36, closed)

me too.
I had awesome concentric rings on my thumb for a few weeks :)
(xanthine, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 10:00, closed)