>> I hadn't thought about getting long matches; my thought was wooden kitchen matches and tongs.
This is not quite the same situation, but ... when I got my first apartment, during my second year of college, I was for some reason terrfied at the thought of lighting the burners on my gas stove. (It was an old stove that didn't light automatically.) So I had this whole elaborate set-up: I'd hold a match in a pair of tongs, use a lighter to light the match, and then hold it to the burner to light it. I never thought of using long matches -- maybe you could find those at a hardware store, or a furniture store that sells fireplace gear?
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Date: 2004-02-18 12:52 pm (UTC)This is not quite the same situation, but ... when I got my first apartment, during my second year of college, I was for some reason terrfied at the thought of lighting the burners on my gas stove. (It was an old stove that didn't light automatically.) So I had this whole elaborate set-up: I'd hold a match in a pair of tongs, use a lighter to light the match, and then hold it to the burner to light it. I never thought of using long matches -- maybe you could find those at a hardware store, or a furniture store that sells fireplace gear?