It01Firefox
Newly Enlightened
Hi,
I just thought to share two flashlight stories that happened to me recently.
1.
A couple of weeks ago I was with my parents to look at a house they thought about buying. We were in the basement and my father wanted to check out the furnace, but of course he couldn't see anything in that dark hole there.
So he turns around to me and says: "Don't you have a flashlight in the car? Go get it.
I answered: "Well of course I do, but it's raining outside and I don't really want to walk to my car, so.." and I whipped out my E1B, clicked it on high and handed it over to him.
Instead of thanking me, he gave me that look (you know, the "I can't believe my son is such a geek" look), shakes his head and complains: "You could have given me that when we came down here!"
I just stood there, grinning, one hand in my coat pocket, resting on my E2e, thinking: "Any you have now idea how much of a geek I am!"
Oh yeah, in case anyone was wondering, the E1B lit the whole thing up pefectly.
2.
I'm a volunteer firefighter and last night we had a drill with a neighbouring squad in their town. It was in an old empty building that the town owns.
After the drill when all the smoke had cleared out of the house we did a walkthrough with the guy who set up the drill to take a look at some of the problems and dangers our teams faced inside.
Since the building is empty all the power is turned off we had to rely on flashlights. The instructor asked me to turn on my helmet light (UK 4AA) which I openly refused because I had used it constantly during the drill (I was team leader on the first team from my engine that went in to search for missing persons and fight the fire) so it was running pretty low on batteries plus the tight narrow beam that is pretty good at cutting through smoke isn't really suited to light up whole rooms. So I pulled out my PD30, pointed it towards the ceiling and clicked it on turbo. The whole room lit up and the instructor turned around to me and says: "OK you have me convinced." And he turns of his own UK. So I provided illumination for the whole squad during the walkthrough, nobody else needed their lights, except when they wandered around the house.
I think I have convinced a few of them to invest in a good flashlight and since Christmas is coming up quite a few are actually thinking about treating themselves to one pretty soon.
I'll probably have to recommend them something in a more common AA format or they are gonna be put off when they check up on prices for CR123s.
And I also think I'm not going to give them my Surefire speech.
I just thought to share two flashlight stories that happened to me recently.
1.
A couple of weeks ago I was with my parents to look at a house they thought about buying. We were in the basement and my father wanted to check out the furnace, but of course he couldn't see anything in that dark hole there.
So he turns around to me and says: "Don't you have a flashlight in the car? Go get it.
I answered: "Well of course I do, but it's raining outside and I don't really want to walk to my car, so.." and I whipped out my E1B, clicked it on high and handed it over to him.
Instead of thanking me, he gave me that look (you know, the "I can't believe my son is such a geek" look), shakes his head and complains: "You could have given me that when we came down here!"
I just stood there, grinning, one hand in my coat pocket, resting on my E2e, thinking: "Any you have now idea how much of a geek I am!"
Oh yeah, in case anyone was wondering, the E1B lit the whole thing up pefectly.
2.
I'm a volunteer firefighter and last night we had a drill with a neighbouring squad in their town. It was in an old empty building that the town owns.
After the drill when all the smoke had cleared out of the house we did a walkthrough with the guy who set up the drill to take a look at some of the problems and dangers our teams faced inside.
Since the building is empty all the power is turned off we had to rely on flashlights. The instructor asked me to turn on my helmet light (UK 4AA) which I openly refused because I had used it constantly during the drill (I was team leader on the first team from my engine that went in to search for missing persons and fight the fire) so it was running pretty low on batteries plus the tight narrow beam that is pretty good at cutting through smoke isn't really suited to light up whole rooms. So I pulled out my PD30, pointed it towards the ceiling and clicked it on turbo. The whole room lit up and the instructor turned around to me and says: "OK you have me convinced." And he turns of his own UK. So I provided illumination for the whole squad during the walkthrough, nobody else needed their lights, except when they wandered around the house.
I think I have convinced a few of them to invest in a good flashlight and since Christmas is coming up quite a few are actually thinking about treating themselves to one pretty soon.
I'll probably have to recommend them something in a more common AA format or they are gonna be put off when they check up on prices for CR123s.
And I also think I'm not going to give them my Surefire speech.
! He's always grateful, but he never just says: "Can I borrow one of your lights?"
