Pilot Light

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So I just wanted to announce that... I lit my first stovetop pilot light today. I really hope I didn't break anything. I know, I know what most of you are thinking, "wow Felicia, you are almost 25 years old and never lit the pilot light on your stove before?" And yeah, I get it, my millennial ways have just repressed me into learning such simple things. That this little task I have to announce to the world because in my 24 years of life I never had a reason to do it. But I did it. And I did it...without instructions. My mom normally does it, I am the one to normally smell the gas and then she fixes it. But she wasn't around when I smelled the gas, so I turned on one burner and saw the flames, but when I turned on the other burner, no flames and that is when I had to decide either I just leave it until my mom came back and get a really bad headache (There is no way we could get carbon monoxide poisoning, we have too many drafts for that much build-up, but the headaches are freaking terrible) or I could figure out how to do it myself. I took off everything on the stovetop, lifted it up and was just like "What am I even doing under here?" I saw the other light on the right side and everything made sense. I gotta light that thingie but on this side. And so I did. And now it is lit. Heck yeah.