Anyone think you're weird?

[PhotonWrangler]

Some people carry an umbrella if there's a 40% chance of rain. I carry a flashlight cuz there's a 100% chance of dark every day. But I'm the weird one.

~ Chance

That reminds me of George Carlin's old routine about Al Sleet, the hippy dippy weatherman. "Tonight's forecast - dark. Continued dark through the night, changing to widely scattered light in the morning."

 

[PWK]

I've recently caught the flashlight bug and have tried to keep entirely to myself. Not that I really care what people think, I just don't believe most people would find it particularly interesting. Weird? I don't think it is any weirder than collecting other useful things like watches, fountain pens, drink coasters, knives or lighters - to each his own. So far only my wife knows about my interest in flashlights, only because she found the receipt for my purchase of an Aeon Mk. iii, thank goodness aluminum and not timascus! Let's just say my advocacy skills were tested a bit.

 

[SoCalTiger]

Only my wife thinks I'm weird.

I'm able to successfully hide my eccentricities from everyone else. :duh2:

 

[Hugh Johnson]

Everyone who knows about my enthusiastic interest thinks I'm weird. Which isn't very many people, because I think I'm weird.

 

[bykfixer]

My neighbors may think I'm weird now as I velcro'd a flashlight to the nozzle I used to water my new lawn this evening. (Trying to establish creeping red fescue under some oak trees this year) A nasty crop of lespediza wiped out a vast area under my trees and after eradicating the stuff I'm trying a shade grass that seasoned folks advised me to try.

Today at work I met a fellow weirdo who climbed out of dump truck with a flashlight in each hand.... at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. His partner says "flashlight? Why? To which he responded "I can't see what I need to see without one"..
Then the guy says "why two?"...
He responds.... wait for it now...

"Because two is one and one is none"....

 

[Norseman]

Yeah my friends always bust my chops for always having a knife and a flashlight and my other EDC stuff on me, and I give it to them right back when they try and borrow one of them for second. I say "No. Remember when you thought it was corny? Now use your teeth to cut or a lighter to see."

 

[mfunnell]

...because I think I'm weird.

I know the feeling, because I know I'm weird. I noticed, the other day, that I had 7 lights with me as a matter of course, in the middle of the day, for no apparent reason. And I don't even see myself as a "light guy"!

...Mike

P.S. Lights were: (1) Fenix E01 on my car keys, along with (2) a no-name 5mm button-battery light; (3) Olight i3E on my house keys with another (4) button-light; (5) Jet-1 MK in front right pocket; (6) Olight i3S-Cu in back left pocket; (7) Nitecore EC11 head on EC21 body in camera bag.

 

[Richub]

I'm past the age that a stranger's opinion mattered to me...

To my friends and coworkers, I'm the "enlightened guy." A lot of them also have their own geeky habits, so that equals things nicely.

In general, people have a tendency to think others are weird or strange if that person falls outside of their preferred group.
So I think that in the eyes of others, almost all of us are weird, and most of us think the same about a lot of strangers too.

So: Does anyone think I'm weird? Yup.
Do I care? Nope.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

We're only weird until the power goes out. Then we're suddenly rather popular.

 

[Norseman]

We're only weird until the power goes out. Then we're suddenly rather popular.

Exactly. And oh do I love when it happens lol

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

We're only weird until the power goes out. Then we're suddenly rather popular.

Don't kid yourself. That popularity only lasts till the power is restored; then we're quickly forgotten, and back to being weird. :sigh:

~ Chance

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Don't kid yourself. That popularity only lasts till the power is restored; then we're quickly forgotten, and back to being weird. :sigh:

~ Chance

Lol, you've got that right, Chauncey. But we can enjoy our moment in the darkne... er, light.

 

[Norseman]

Hahaha exactly [emoji41][emoji1360]