If you want to avoid getting into trouble because you're playing with matches, always remember to protect your eyebrows.
Once, made a pile out of the innards of some firecrackers I found on the ground with no fuses. Tried a few times to light it with a match. Finally, I leaned way over to look really close, to try to get the pile to light. Of course it went, and I lost my eyebrows which tipped mom off to what I was up to. I also inhaled a bunch of smoke, and was in bed sick the rest of the day.
Another time, much later in life. I went on a smoke break with a guy I didn't know very well. I was trying to get my cigarette lit, but it was windy, so I was having trouble. The guy pulls out this Bic lighter (one of the adjustable flame ones). I put the cigarette in my mouth, cupped my hands around the lighter, flicked it, and lost one of my eyebrows. The love muffin had "adjusted" the lighter to turn it into a blowtorch. I was pissed. My boss asked why I had no eyebrow (only lost one that time). It was a bit of time before I grew it back, and every now and then someone had the balls to ask what had happened to my eyebrow.
