(MacGyver) Puzzle. Anyone?

[Andrew]

You're a heavy smoker. You wake in the middle of the night. All stores available to you are closed. You have a cigarette, but no matches, lighters, stove/oven (it's a long story, but you don't) -- nothing to light your badly needed cigarette. There is no way for you to light that cigarette.

 

What you do have is:

 

1. wooden clothes pin

1. cotton ball

1. electical cord

1. scissors

1. bottle rubbing alcohol

 

Can anyone figure out how to light your cigarette from these items?

[+ bashful]

Use the scissors to cut the electrical cord, plugging it in, forcing a spark that will ignite either the cotton ball or clothes pin (or both), using the alcohol as an accelerant, to light the cigarette.

 

I'm glad I gave up cigarettes.

[+ glennnn]

Ditto......Or electrocute yourself so you are unconscious and don't feel the need of the cigarette.

[+ purplekow]

Use the clothes pin on the nipple of the guy sleeping next to you and ask him if he has a match. Failing that. Scissor cut electric cord to ignite the alcohol soaked cotton ball which you have pinched in the clothes pin