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Woman at a Gas Station with a Frozen Fuel Cap - a Song of Ice and Fire

What's the first thing our parents teach us about safety? Alright, perhaps it's "don't stick your fingers in the wall socket," but how about the second? Fine, it could be "don't run with scissors," but the third has definitely got to be not to play with fire.
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As we grow up - at about five or six - we realize that fire isn't really that bad as long as we don't stick our hands into it and keep it away from the curtains. Later on, we discover that it's pretty hard to light up a cigarette without its help, and then there's also the barbecue situation. All in all, we can't really live our lives without fire, and even if we could, it would be a boring life.

However, even as adults, there are some instances where using an open flame is prohibited, and the first that pops into mind, whether you're a driver or not, is the gas station. There's no need to go into the reasons behind this restriction - if you need any convincing, buy a gallon of gasoline and try it out at home. But make sure you call 911 in advance, just to maximize the survival chances of your neighborhood.

It looks like this Russian woman's parents skipped all these steps when she was young, as well as failing to teach her common sense. One might suspect she can't even read as there must have been a sign there somewhere banning the use of fire. It's true, most of these announcements talk about smoking as no one imagines somebody can be stupid enough to produce an actual flame.

And yet, when their fuel cap is frozen, somebody apparently can. This woman had the fuel door of her Ford Focus open, and the pump's nozzle stuck in. Apparently, the inside flap, the one that's supposed to be pushed aside by the nozzle, was frozen and refused to budge. And since everybody knows that fire is the enemy of ice, she took out a lighter in what must have seemed to everyone witnessing the scene an attempt of creating a flamethrower.

And the attempt was successful as she narrowly misses a trip to the hair stylist to have her head shaven by pulling back just in time. The fact she tries to put the fire out by blowing it just goes to demonstrate she had absolutely no idea what she was doing. And, yes, she even attempts to do it by waving her hand, even though, at this point, the gas had dripped all over her car and the pavement.

We don't get to see the outcome of the clip as the guy in the dashcam car does the only sensible thing and scrambles out of there, not before she calls the reckless driver "durak." Which is a bit harsh, if you ask us, as we're willing to bet that flap was indeed defrosted. Actually, it was probably melted at that point.

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"Boy meets car, boy loves car, boy gets journalism degree and starts job writing and editing at a car magazine" - 5/5. (Vlad Mitrache if he was a movie)
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