Trifextra - Triple Dipple

On to Trifextra, where this weekend we're borrowing from the musical world.  Noted blues musician, Lead Belly, was quoted in Three Uses of the Knife by David Mamet as saying:

You take a knife, you use it to cut the bread, so you'll have strength to work; you use it to shave, so you'll look nice for your lover; on discovering her with another, you use it to cut out her lying heart.

He uses one object, a knife, to flesh out a character and to tell a story in a basic three-part dramatic structure.  We want the same from you.  Give us 33 words (exactly) that tell us three different uses for one object.  But don't just tell us that a can opener can be used to 1) open cans, 2) open beer bottles and 3) break a window in case of a fire.  Tell us a story, like Lead Belly did, if you can.

Only my second time working this, I've written three different pieces:

1. 

She flicked the Bic

and the ritual releasing candle glowed before          the Bic torched his wretched belongings

in the dirt firepit. Only the red tip of a

Bic lit cigarette remained 

in the blackness.

2. 

Warm water nourished the corn and tomatoes;

warm water washed away fertile earth from beneath chipped nails,

and flowed across the bathroom floor tinged with the blood of loneliness.

3.

Golden hair waved from windows of a red VW puttering down Ventura highway.

It transported a collage of beaming hope across miles.

In the distance, a sienna beetle cradles the wild.