Saving Grace~

My former neighbor Grace used to call me several times a month asking me to bring her a "thirty pack of Miller High-life, a half a pint of Canadian Mist and two packs of GPC Full Flavor Menthol 100's" ...

Grace was diagnosed with MS and retired from the post office ... since then her family had moved her to an apartment that's closer to where they all live. I really hadn't heard from her in quite a few months.

Apparently, Grace is having a hard time getting family members to supply her with all her vices and since I do not live right next door any more it's not as convenient for me to deliver her bounty.

I have not been to her new apartment since she moved so I did do some shopping and take her by her request ... Here's where things got a little dicey:
Grace didn't have a lighter ... asked me if I'd take a cigarette in the kitchen and light it off the stove. As you know you can't do that with out drawing on the cigarette. Of course I could do a Clinton and not inhale ... but I was sure this was a dangerous game for me to play and I just did not want to risk even a small inhale.

I left the apartment and went to the nearest Shell operated by a new American buddy and picked up the cheapest lighter they had. Dangerous situation averted!!!