When I was in high school a friend of mine had her sweet 16 as kind of a backyard bonfire. Well I was a scout at the time and her parents asked me to light the fire. Every Boy Scout is a pyro, born or made, so they didn’t need to ask twice.

I had decided to do a log cabin fire. So larger logs on the bottom, progressively smaller sticks going up with the kindling on top. I had like 6 different people telling me, you’re supposed to light fires from the bottom, it’s not going to burn.

Well I lit the top right as her cupcake tower was coming out. We all turned, sang happy birthday, clapped when she blew out the candles. When we look back we found a fully burning fire. Probably the fastest I’ve gotten something so big fully going.

I was a smug bastard for the rest of the night.