kelmo
Flashlight Enthusiast
Happy New Year Fellow Photon Fiends!!!
I like to take evening strolls with my wife after dinner and this time of year it is very pleasing as it gets dark early. We live in a relatively safe neighborhood with very mild weather and thus lots of people do the same. Now being a flashaholic I have at least 3 lights on me when I hit the door. A Arc AAA in my pocket, an E2D or 9P strapped to my hip, and either a L2 or 6P+A19+KL3 in hand. I always make sure my wife has either a E1e or E2O in her pocket. There is a nice bike path we walk down and it has the advantage of not having any street lights. There is enough ambient light on a moonless night to walk without a flashlight with no problem. We have lots of unlit parks I seek out to stroll through.
What amazes me is I rarely see anybody else carrying a flashlight. Maybe a few have mini-mags or keychain LEDs in there pockets but by and large nobody seems to carry lights. Now I know I am biased and probably do look silly to the non-flashaholic crowd when my approach looks like a 747 on final decent by hey thats me. In fact the only walkers I see that carry lights are kids. I have only once seen an adult using a flashlight.
It is strange that as safety conscience and paranoid our society is getting that someone would venture outside at night without a flashlight. I'm willing to bet most of my fellow nocturnal pedestrians carry more guns than flashlights!
kelmo
I like to take evening strolls with my wife after dinner and this time of year it is very pleasing as it gets dark early. We live in a relatively safe neighborhood with very mild weather and thus lots of people do the same. Now being a flashaholic I have at least 3 lights on me when I hit the door. A Arc AAA in my pocket, an E2D or 9P strapped to my hip, and either a L2 or 6P+A19+KL3 in hand. I always make sure my wife has either a E1e or E2O in her pocket. There is a nice bike path we walk down and it has the advantage of not having any street lights. There is enough ambient light on a moonless night to walk without a flashlight with no problem. We have lots of unlit parks I seek out to stroll through.
What amazes me is I rarely see anybody else carrying a flashlight. Maybe a few have mini-mags or keychain LEDs in there pockets but by and large nobody seems to carry lights. Now I know I am biased and probably do look silly to the non-flashaholic crowd when my approach looks like a 747 on final decent by hey thats me. In fact the only walkers I see that carry lights are kids. I have only once seen an adult using a flashlight.
It is strange that as safety conscience and paranoid our society is getting that someone would venture outside at night without a flashlight. I'm willing to bet most of my fellow nocturnal pedestrians carry more guns than flashlights!
kelmo