I was a smoker until four or five months ago. For the last two years of my life as a smoking person my favorite cigarette lighter is a silver-plated Zippo, given to me as a birthday present from a very good friend of mine. Although, I do not smoke anymore I keep the lighter on my desk next to my computer monitor to remind me of my friend.
It is a very elegant, stylish object that has a rectangular shape. The lighter is about two inches and one quarter tall, about an inch and a half wide, and about thirteen sixteenths thick. My Zippo resembles an old, silver cigarette case, like the ones that I have seen in the movies from the late1930’s and the early 1940’s, but it is smaller in size, and does not open sideways. Seven eights of an inch from the top I can see the cut that goes around the
The edges of the face are rounded, just like the rest of the edges on the lighter. They are connecting the thick sides of the lighter. The wide, thick side on the top is slightly rounded, like the left and the right thick sides, and just a little bit arched. Those three sides do not have any engravings, and I can see a distorted reflection of the things that surround the lighter on my desk, which is due to their roundness. I flip the lighter upside down, I see the concaved surface with rounded edges and sunken lettering, which shows me Zippo’s emblem and the town and state where the lighter was assembled. When I turn the lighter one more time I see the back of it, which has a mirror like surface. When I polish it with a piece of cotton cloth, I can see the reflection of my face. If the sunbea
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