Do you want to know how hot it was today?

[Broken_Hero]

My wife works in NW Arkansas, and today she left her pack of cigarettes, with her lighter inside the pack in her car. After work she got into her car and saw cigarettes, the cigarette box, and lighter pieces strewn all over the place...

It was so hot, her lighter exploded. We are lucky it didn't start a fire inside her car...I have no idea how hot it was in Bentonville today, but in SW Missouri it was 101 according to my outside thermometor.

[Kajsa]

1. Wow! I'm glad no one got hurt.

Good thing it didn't start a fire.

Today's been the day for threads on exploding lighters!!

Hopefully, it will start to cool down a bit. It has already
on the West coast.

[Broken_Hero]

2. there have been more threads

on exploding lighters? Damn...this weather kills me...

[Kajsa]

5. Yep, here's the other one.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5472143&mesg_id=5472143

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Buy your wife the Auto-Cool!

https://www.autocooltv.com/ppc/index.asp?id=&refcode=ppcG

Watch the video - it's the most amazing thing! It'll cool the interior of your car by over 30 degrees!

Sure to be the winner of the 2006 Snake Oil Award. :eyes:

Yes... very lucky it didn't start a fire. Dayum!

[Broken_Hero]

4. Yeah very lucky

and my wife and I aren't usually that lucky!...:) But, my imagination does me well, just thinking of how bad it could have been...hint for other smokers, don't leave your lighter in the car...

[Major Hogwash]

6. Pete, the inside of your car can get to as much as 30º hotter than it is

outside.

A car is like an oven when it sits in the sun.
Depending on the type of car and the windows, the temperatures can hit 30º higher in the car than it is outside.

A foldout cardboard dashboard sun blocker is worth it's weight in gold in the summer.
I've even seen some cars with little pull-down green shades for the back window when I was driving through Kansas.

[Broken_Hero]

7. thanks for the info...:)

today was her last day smoking also...what a send off huh? Today is my first step toward being smoke free, she took the last 5 or so cigs with her to work. So far i'm doing well, but its only day 1...the next five days should be a riot...literally...:)

[Skittles]

8. oh, that sh** happens in Texas all the time

my work badge melted in the car

[Broken_Hero]

9. damn

that is hot, if it melts your badge...my wife hasn't tested that one out yet...:) She has to have her badge in order to get into work, so she never leaves it in the car, its always on her...

[Skittles]

10. it was 113 degrees at the time, and that was OUTSIDE the car

stupid thing to do, leaving it in there :(

[Broken_Hero]

11. damn

it hasn't been that hot here...yet. The hottest temp I have ever been in was in Sac about three years ago, it was 114, I about died, I couldn't even go outside to smoke a simple cigarette, that was how unbearable it was...

That summer, lots of cold beer and ice...;)

[Ouabache]

12. Letterman said it was so hot in New York City today

that the Statue of Liberty was wearing a halter top.

[Broken_Hero]

13. yikes!

a halter top...:) The tourists got some good photo's today then...;)