by TightWad » Fri May 06, 2005 12:13 pm
Okay, I still remain convinced that the candle should be lit first.
You can't just light the fire first, because even if you're pretty sure you can do it with one match...well, if it goes wrong, you're dead. You can't light the lantern first because...okay, I don't actually even know how lanterns work, never actually seen one 'cept in movies. But star said that lighting the lantern is most likely to go wrong, i.e. put out the match, and once again, you're dead.
So you start with a candle, cause that's just plain easiest. After that, hell, you want some back-up, so then you move over to the lantern. How do you light that? Not with the candle, because you don't wanna accidentally put that out in the process. So you...ummmm...grap a twig, right, and light that off the candle, use that to light the lantern, and then...ummmm...yeah, you keep up with the whole twig idea and use that to light the actual fire. Then again, I don't know whether the twig would actually burn or just kinda smolder...did I mention I'm not much for wilderness survival?
-TW