have flashlights ever made you feel like a idiot?

[raggie33]

ok i am a idiot it admit it!!!! for real a few weeks ago . most my town lost power!!!! so its day time at that point. i go around to ask if anyone needs a flashlight. i acourse meant if it turns dark before we regain power.. but now im sure they was asking if they need them while its sunny out. god im dumb lol

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

Don't sweat it, man! Who hasn't been in a dark bathroom on the toilet when the lights went out? I mean, you just never know when and where you are going to need a backup light. You were doing the good neighbor thing, hopefully next time someone in the HOA wants to complain about you, they remember how nice you were.

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

Oh, one more thing. If you loan out a light, sterilize it when it is returned!

 

[idleprocess]

Idiot? No. But on my most recent Anduril lights the default cycling RGB secondaries have attracted unwanted attention until I reconfigured for the steady voltage indication.

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

Idiot? No. But on my most recent Anduril lights the default cycling RGB secondaries have attracted unwanted attention until I reconfigured for the steady voltage indication.

Was this "unwanted attention" from people wearing uniforms and badges?

 

[idleprocess]

Was this "unwanted attention" from people wearing uniforms and badges?

Rando non-gendarmerie. It was the vehicle swerving at me that was concerning.

 

[experimentjon]

Entering PINs on the Overready Boss with a MOFF switch...that was possibly the only thing more difficult than getting a HIVE driver into programming mode...

 

[PaladinNO]

Have a flashlight made me feel like an idiot? No, not really. But I did feel like a being of below average intelligence when I was made self-aware of how I looked carrying my 12x 18650 Fenix TK76 like a club over my shoulder like a caveman prior to discovering the fire at a LAN-party many years back.

EDIT:
Why can't Fenix bring the TK76 back in an upgraded form? That thing was genius! Full flood, semi flood plus spot. Tail stand capability, and individual buttons (which I love!) for separate LED control.

 

[ilikeguns40]

Entering PINs on the Overready Boss with a MOFF switch...that was possibly the only thing more difficult than getting a HIVE driver into programming mode...

I couldn't imagine anything more extreme than the HIVE driver. That was indeed a nightmare at first

 

[Kestrel]

I can state with certainty that flashlights make some people act like idiots, especially online.

 

[Chauncey Gardiner]

I can state with certainty that flashlights make some people act like idiots, especially online.

It's not the flashlights.

 

[raggie33]

It's not the flashlights.

the waiting makes me more of a idiot omg from china takes patince lol.

 

[bykfixer]

Idiot? No. But on my most recent Anduril lights the default cycling RGB secondaries have attracted unwanted attention until I reconfigured for the steady voltage indication.

Huh?
I've read that 4 times and still don't get it.

 

[Jean-Luc Descarte]

Once.

I felt an unpleasant mild burning sensation on my hip one night while I was out, and thought for a while that I was developing a rash. Eventually it got unbearable and I shoved my hand down my pant leg to touch it, and felt the same thing but much worse on my hand!

Turns out I'd dropped my Lumintop Tool AA v2.0 in my coin pocket like I usually do with all my lights, but unlike my 18650s and 21700s, it could turn on accidentally by being pressed by god knows what. And with 650lm Turbo mode memorised and a 14500 inside... you get the idea

Lesson learned, never carried the Tool inside that pocket again. Only toted it by my wallet clipped to the edge of the pocket, a method that never earned me an unitended activation.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Oh, one more thing. If you loan out a light, sterilize it when it is returned!

Especially if you loaned it to Ray Romano.

 

[IMA SOL MAN]

Especially if you loaned it to Ray Romano.

The ceiling fan? Hmmm, that's a head scratcher. I'm thinking a sleep study would be a good thing for Ray.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

The ceiling fan? Hmmm, that's a head scratcher. I'm thinking a sleep study would be a good thing for Ray.

I just realized that I linked to the wrong "Ray Romano lost his flashlight" story. The one I saw earlier today said that he lost it while reading in bed and eventually found it in...

his underpants.

 

[M@elstrom]

I have no control of other's perceptions, nor are they my concern 😁

 

[Monocrom]

Idiot? No. But on my most recent Anduril lights....

That U.I. makes me feel like an idiot.
Thankfully the default setting is a good one.
One click for some output.
Another click for significantly brighter output.
Then switch the light off. Works for me!

 

[Falcon9h]

Only when I almost fried my nuts when one got turned on in a pocket 🙄