**  John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>  writes: **

> It's actually even dumber than smoking. Igniting gasoline with a lit
> cigarette requires very specific conditions that are suprisingly hard
> to create

This reminds me of the old guy that used to 
work at the local Vickers fillerup in the small town I 
grew up in as a kid..

Due to the  initial onset of Parkinsons, he's
holding that lit cig in one hand.. it's 
shaking, while he fills your tank with 
the other!  ;-)  (this is *not* an urban legend)

Rose Hill, KS circa 1975 or so.

As kids, we'd go buy there to get a 
bottle of orange/grape soda out of their
machine for a nickle.

The station never exploded BTW 

 -tim

90 syncro westy
mesa, az