zespectre
Flashlight Enthusiast
In keeping with the "you know you're a flashaholic when..." threads.
My wife, a non-flashaholic who forgets what sort of lights I buy, inspired me to tell this little story.
While we were out camping over the weekend. We had gone to a HUGE corn maze ( http://www.mazeplay.com/showmaze.php?maze=50 ) which they run at night (flashlights required, hey this would be a GREAT get-together!). I'm carrying an Inova T4 with my Surefire L2 as backup as this set of mazes can take several hours if you do all of them. My wife is carrying a Gerber LX3.0 and spare batteries.
No sooner do we get to the "staging area" then my wife looks at the mini maglight the 12 year old girl next to her is using and has the following conversation...
MyWife-(in all seriousness) "I have some extra brand-new batteries if you need them".
TheDad-(Frowns a little) "no, we just put fresh batteries in all of our lights (all mini-maglights), why do you ask?"
MyWife- "oh sorry, it just looked a little dim so I thought she might have an old set of batteries and I wouldn't want her to go dark before you finished the maze".
TheDad- (a little put off) "I thought they were pretty bright."
MyWife- "Oh, I guess I'm just used to these crazy lights my husband buys" -and she switches on the LX3.0.
TheDad- "Holy Cow! What the heck is that thing?"
The next thing I know I have about 15 people all wanting to see and touch (and shine the lights in their eyes?!?) and compare them to their various el-cheapo stuff. I'm giving an impromptu lecture about the current state of illumination tools, light output, and runtimes. My wife is repeatedly telling people to NOT shine the lights in their eyes! Then came the inevitable questions about price and the usual crowd-dispersing reactions we get about that topic .
So eventually we run the mazes and after several hours and many miles of walking we are resting at the benches near the exit and out come most of the people we talked to earlier (most of them with uselessly dim or dead lights). Another pow-wow starts when they realize that our lights are nearly as bright as when we started. This time I have people coming up to me and making comments on the order of "maybe that's not too much for a light like that".
In the end I had to go to the car and get a pen and some paper because several people wanted to write down the make/model/cost and where to buy the lights... Wooo Hooo, more converts!
My wife, a non-flashaholic who forgets what sort of lights I buy, inspired me to tell this little story.
While we were out camping over the weekend. We had gone to a HUGE corn maze ( http://www.mazeplay.com/showmaze.php?maze=50 ) which they run at night (flashlights required, hey this would be a GREAT get-together!). I'm carrying an Inova T4 with my Surefire L2 as backup as this set of mazes can take several hours if you do all of them. My wife is carrying a Gerber LX3.0 and spare batteries.
No sooner do we get to the "staging area" then my wife looks at the mini maglight the 12 year old girl next to her is using and has the following conversation...
MyWife-(in all seriousness) "I have some extra brand-new batteries if you need them".
TheDad-(Frowns a little) "no, we just put fresh batteries in all of our lights (all mini-maglights), why do you ask?"
MyWife- "oh sorry, it just looked a little dim so I thought she might have an old set of batteries and I wouldn't want her to go dark before you finished the maze".
TheDad- (a little put off) "I thought they were pretty bright."
MyWife- "Oh, I guess I'm just used to these crazy lights my husband buys" -and she switches on the LX3.0.
TheDad- "Holy Cow! What the heck is that thing?"
The next thing I know I have about 15 people all wanting to see and touch (and shine the lights in their eyes?!?) and compare them to their various el-cheapo stuff. I'm giving an impromptu lecture about the current state of illumination tools, light output, and runtimes. My wife is repeatedly telling people to NOT shine the lights in their eyes! Then came the inevitable questions about price and the usual crowd-dispersing reactions we get about that topic .
So eventually we run the mazes and after several hours and many miles of walking we are resting at the benches near the exit and out come most of the people we talked to earlier (most of them with uselessly dim or dead lights). Another pow-wow starts when they realize that our lights are nearly as bright as when we started. This time I have people coming up to me and making comments on the order of "maybe that's not too much for a light like that".
In the end I had to go to the car and get a pen and some paper because several people wanted to write down the make/model/cost and where to buy the lights... Wooo Hooo, more converts!
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