What did you use your flashlight for today?

Today (6-4-10) was the media day for the grand opening of the new dark ride at my home park, The Haunted Castle at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. Members of a world-wide roller coaster club called the American Coaster Enthusiasts, of which I am a member, were invited this morning to come ride it with media reporters an hour before it opened to the public.

After the media day was over, I stuck around to ride it with the general public once. Since it was brand new, they had never ridden it before. Two little boys waiting in front of me in the queue, each about 10 years old, were terrified of riding. I told them that I had ridden it twice already and it wasn't that scary at all. They asked me to ride in the seat in front of them and point out all the monsters that jumped out at the riders.

I did even better than that. I pulled out my EDC light, my trusty Fenix LD20, and lit up all the spooky monsters in the ride to help calm the boys' nerves before they popped out and made loud noises at us. There were no other riders near us so I was careful not to spoil the effects for anyone else. The boys were thankful that I had my light and they weren't scared at all.

I noticed that as soon as we all got off the ride, the two boys ran around and got back into the queue to ride again. :thumbsup:
 
I forgot that there was another incident where I used my light during my Disneyland vacation last week. (I mentioned that trip in post 47 on page 2 of this thread.) A man waiting in front of my girlfriend and I in the queue for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad gave his son some pennies to throw into the steams that meander through the queue. He told him to try to throw them way up high into the troughs above the streams.

The boy, about 7 years old, tried to throw them up there, but since it was late at night he couldn't see the troughs very well. Most of the pennies ended up way off in the dirt. I then asked, "Need a light?" as I turned on my Fenix LD20 and pointed it at the troughs. The boy still didn't manage to throw a penny into the troughs, but he and his father were thankful for being able to see.

As we walked further along in the queue past the streams, I overheard the father say to his son, "Wasn't that cool...that man had a very bright flashlight right when we needed it!" :thumbsup:
 
Signaled a buddy when he drove right past our meeting area. I used strobe on a Qmini123, it worked quite well.
 
My aunt who is a truck driver was showing me her new flashlight. She thinks it is bright and she uses it to help back up the big rig and for other things. She bought it at an autoparts store. It is an LED keychain light two of them for $5. She saw my little tiny 4Sevens Preon 2 in my pocket and was joking me about my little, tiny, cute flashlight. She challenged me to a flashlight duel. Well, what was I to do? After all I could not miss this chance to have some fun. We go outside in the darkness and she says well lets see what your little pen light can do, so I turn it on LOW. By this time she is picking on me in a fun way and turns on her light and starts to gloat, she is having fun. So now I turn the Preon up a notch, which of course puts her light to shame, so that shut her up. Well just like Mythbusters I could not stop there, so I go for HI, and that un-shut her up. What she said I am not going to type here. Needless to say I had fun with that little, tiny, wimpy Preon two. 🙂
 
Great story lovehim, haha.

I used my light today to make sure that a 30-gallon gas caddy was indeed empty. Lit the bottom of the tank right up revealing a small pool of gasoline and a bunch of yucky crap.
 
structural inspections in the evening on construction site.

peeking into my bike's gas tank to see if theres any more gas left for me to reach the station as the fuel gauge is red/empty 😀
 
I deployed the Milky high CRI floodmaster the other day to install/wire a drum motor for a Primo coffee roaster. With the O.S. tail i was able to tailstand the little gem and direct the smooth flow of light upwards, giving the entire work area a daytime like glow.
It was no problem at all seeing the different insulation colors on the wires in an otherwise dimly lit area.

shown w/o O.S. tail.
 
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Nice looking Milky you've got there! My High CRI clicky came to the rescue in a dimly lit aisle in ****'s Sporting goods. What was I looking at you ask?....flashlights of course. :devil:
 
lol, they were throwing it back and forth to each side of the pool then diving for it. she held up well, no battle scars. 🙂
 
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