You Just Know Your A Flashaholic When......

[SUREFIRED]

Re: You Just Know You're A Flashaholic When......

...when you go to the beach at night and you notice most of the non-flashaholics actually have decently bright LED lights... and when they shine them at you, you return fire from a 1000L+ Oveready XML2 DD M2 head on a bored C2!


(You know you're a flashaholic when you have the brightest flashlight on the beach at night!)

 

[ledmitter_nli]

Re: You Just Know You're A Flashaholic When......

... Your Nichia 219 is your go to dermatology vanity light (acne issue).
... Your 18650's are in constant rotation through the charger during the daytime.
... You've repurposed an empty popcorn bag as a 1,700 lumen SF C2 lantern when exiting the movies closing credits.

 

[dna89]

Re: You Just Know You're A Flashaholic When......

When you & the wife are laying in bed. Ceiling bouncing the lights that arrived earlier in the mail.

 

[Vish]

When you buy the exact same flashlight model in multiple quantities coz you like it and you are afraid that they will not be always available.

 

[Vish]

When even silly deals sound great.

 

[ledmitter_nli]

... You look at your post count.
... You ask your girlfriend to get a SureFire tattoo across her lower back.
... You look at the SureFire logo on the tailcap and experience another genius tattoo idea.
... Anonymous online flashaholics are probably your best friends.

 

[TEEJ]

... You look at your post count.
... You ask your girlfriend to get a SureFire tattoo across her lower back.
... You look at the SureFire logo on the tailcap and experience another genius tattoo idea.
... Anonymous online flashaholics are probably your best friends.

You need to call them up and go out and play sometimes.

That's one of the reasons I go to Photon Fests and so forth.

 

[ledmitter_nli]

But Norm is on the bottom side of teh Earth

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

When you buy the exact same flashlight model in multiple quantities coz you like it and you are afraid that they will not be always available.

Well, it's good to know that I'm not the only one who does that...

 

[Ishango]

When you read a new product announcement on Facebook from a certain manufacturer and instantly check here on CPF how the heck you could have missed it (and find a topic you have not seen yet).

 

[OsheasTorch]

When all the ladies at work tell you they've seen your flashlight a thousand times... No pun intended.

 

[markr6]

Well, it's good to know that I'm not the only one who does that...

Yup! PD32UE...tempted to get a third! I was afraid they would (and did) screw up trying to update it.

 

[Cataract]

... ... Anonymous online flashaholics are probably your best friends.

You need to call them up and go out and play sometimes.

That's one of the reasons I go to Photon Fests and so forth.

I organize GT's myself. I even PM members from more distant areas and find out a lot of them have family in the area and try to match GT dates with their trips whenever possible.

But Norm is on the bottom side of teh Earth

You need to find a reason for a trip to Australia

 

[ledmitter_nli]

... muscle memory has you deftly changing batteries out in total darkness.
... you've snubbed your nose up at the Grabber Hand Warmers on sale in the dusty bargain bin this year.
... you've aimed 4200 lumens worth of lights at your mouth to see if the dental bleaching gel works any faster (FAIL).
... you wish the front facing screen mode of your flashlight app had a color picker for tints.

 

[wjv]

Re: You Just Know You're A Flashaholic When......

When watching cop show (CSI, NCIS, Bones, Warehouse 13) you analyze the brightness, beam tint and profiles of the flashlights they are using on the show.

True Story: Was watching an episode of Warehouse 13 and the two cops were using their flashlights. I noticed that his beam was very purplish while her's was cool white. Five minutes later, in another scene, they pulled out their flashlights again and this time her's was purplish, and his was cool white. Prop guy just handed them each a flashlight before shooting each scene and never tracked whos was whos.

 

[buds224]

Re: You Just Know You're A Flashaholic When......

...when you won x2 lights during the Crelant giveaway and doubled, or even, tripled your post count trying to win them all hours of the day and night.

 

[wjv]

.....you've been on this forum really for the last 3 hours refreshing the ' new posts ' page!................:tired:lovecpf

Are you implying that doing so, is some sort of abnormal behavior?

 

[AMD64Blondie]

When you wonder why none of your coworkers carries a flashlight with them @ work.Seems like a simple idea...(I mean,even a Mini-Mag 2 AA LED would be more than enough around a university if the power went out..


On that note...why doesn't the power go out more often in Portland?


(Looking for an excuse to use my lights at work around PSU's campus.)

(that's Portland,OR,FYI).

 

[wjv]

I'm just 20 miles north of you (N of Vancouver) and we almost never have any power failures either. . .

 

[Timothybil]

Are you implying that doing so, is some sort of abnormal behavior?

Only when you do it at work!