When you blow out a candle your breath is mostly carbon dioxide. Flames dies in carbon dioxide. Using a leaf blower is going to blow oxygen rich air ate the candles. That will often make them flare up.
Really, who doesn’t take credit cards! Actually, many places won’t take a check, there are even places that won’t take cash. It has been more than a decade since I ever saw a place that wouldn’t take credit cards.
It is no longer a taboo to wear white after Labor Day. It was taboo as wearing white was seen as showing off one’s wealth. Today, anybody can buy white clothes so it is no longer something limited to the wealthy.
Unless a cat gets covered with some chemical that could cause significant harm or death, there is never a reason to wash them and every reason NOT to.Their coat is coated in oils from their saliva that help to protect them. Bathing will wash this off and it can take the cat several days to get it back to where it belongs.
I have had cats my whole life and never bathed one even once.
Cultural appropriation is the norm. When something is appropriated for negative or evil reasons, then it becomes bad.