2004.05.24
Return of the Zippo
Many months ago I thought I lost my Zippo lighter I’d had for a long time. It was given to me when I lived in Prague by a friend named Zoka to give it a new, hopefully happier, life.
Zoka is Bosnian, and he managed to escape the killing there and found refuge in Prague along with hundreds of other ex-Yugoslavians. I felt rather bad losing the lighter and could only console myself thinking that it would find someplace decent but felt it was a shame whoever found it wouldn’t have a clue as to the history of the lighter.
Today Ann and I went to Bolinas to surf and in the process of looking for some random thing in the back of the car… there was the Zippo! Strange and suprising given when I first lost the thing I scoured the Subaru. Anyways, it’s back and I think it’s going to get put on a shelf somewhere prominent.
For the record it has serial BVIII (that would be February of 88, I believe). It’s a pretty old one, relatively speaking. I’m still suprised it wasn’t lost all this time…
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- douglas.nerad » How To Fix An Unlighting Zippo says (August 20th, 2007 at 22:45:54 )
[...] thought I lost it once, and almost had it confiscated another time, but I still have it and it still works. Except it [...]
