One fire guy is ok. Two fire guys is a disaster.
If you have two fire guys, one fire and one girl, you better bring the guitar before you join them. You don't even need to play it, it just has to be there to pacify the fire guys.
I'm the fire wingman. I will not touch the fire if someone else wants to manage it.
ah yes, one fire and one girl
o/
It's me
Not me. I'm the guy trying to convince everyone camping is more fun without a fire
Wait what? Please explain.
Without a fire you have a better chance of seeing/hearing wildlife. For the record, most of my camping experiences are wilderness backpacking. I typed out more reasons in another response in this thread.
Just look it that thing. It need to be poked with a stick.
I definitely do not respect this. I respect someone who helps keep it going, not the dude fucking with it, and giving the fire swirlies.
That's because burning shit is more interesting than talking to you idiots.
Fire is a fickle little thing that if not attended, will die immediately or get wildly out of control. It moves, breathes and eats. Every piece of fuel must be assessed for moisture, shape, size, and the potential to create smoke or embers. Fuel placement is critical, depending on the purpose of the fire, you can make it burn faster, stronger, longer, or create a good bed of coals for cooking. Fire gives warmth, and light while also containing desolation and death. It is a balancing act with dire consequences for falling off either side of a thin line of control.
Occasionally a log will pop or snap, and throw out a little spark show, and that is cool.
There’s also the grill master or chef character that gets to stay to the side of party cooking delicious things for people. That’s me, and my dad, and maybe it’s you.
What that does not include is the other guests being idiots or uninteresting people by default. Social anxiety is what is, but automatically thinking negatively of other people is a hole that is very hard to climb out of.
we'd drag discarded railroad ties down by a creek and drink beer and smoke weed. age 14-15. got beer by asking someone in line at the drive-up liqueur store to buy it. or go inside and shoplift something. was something to do i guess. not recommended firewood because they are soaked in creosote, but burn good. drinking not recommended. i managed to quit. friend never quit and died of liver damage 30 years later. cautionary note for anyone considering same habits.
The real trial is being this guy when other people decide they're going to start a fire and by the time you get there they've done it all wrong and the thing is smouldering and coughing up smoke and barely staying lit at all as they cram handfuls of pine needles and barely dry leaves into places while there's a full-ass log precariously balanced on top of it all and they're saying things like "Maybe we should pour a little lamp oil on top of it?"
And then you have to be the adult and take over the whole operation.
Goes camping, sits around campfire, phone in her face.
*facepalm
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