Across Africa

One day while I was walking down the street I happened to pass an outdoor welding 'shop'.  As I watched, a welder without a helmet, put a cigarette in his mouth, leaned over to his work, shut his eyes, and lit his cigarette off an arc that he sparked with his stick welder!  Just the thought of shutting your eyes as you put your face within a cigarette's length from a high voltage arc is quite shocking. :)