Your experience trying to help muggles.....

Yes if it’s stupidity, it’s their stupidity. That you’ve appointed yourself the judge, jury, and executioner of these people is hilarious at best. Did he specifically state that he’d use his cellphone light in a dark alley or to change his tire, or did you impose the question?

The FACT is people that are otherwise smart do stupid things. Everyone does at some point and time. Almost everone carries their phone. Not everone carries their light all the time. Even you as a flashlight enthusiast don’t carry a light all the time - otherwise you could have shown the lady what a real flashlight is. So if you don’t even carry a flashlight all the time, how do you expect a kid with a cellphone to?

I see a lot of long winded posts in here. Let me sum up how I took this: You took what she was saying the wrong way. She was probably a bit shocked with your product knowledge. People don’t usually come up out of nowhere and say, “hey, hey you, not that one, THIS ONE!” Lol. You did the right thing just don’t expect a normal answer to a not so normal conversation.

Whoa there big fellas…………….Simmer down my friends.

I think it is fair to say everyone has strong opinions on this subject. Spartan, I see you as very enthusiastic new flashlight guy. I was too not that long ago. This bunch on here are good for allowing you to form and express your opinion but, you kinda have to take the criticism that comes with it. You mention changing a tire on a dark road without a flashlight suicide. Not true really. People have been doing it long before flashlights and, car headlights were useless at best. I also seem to remember a certain someone rushing out the door with their newly acquired Q8 to confront a conceived threat to an empty home. Probably more suicidal than using a cellphone light for changing a tire.

Nobody here means you any harm. They would really like to see you happy in this lighting interest we all share. There are options and opinions to keep all of us happy. When you make a poor decision or get butt hurt for the wrong reason what would you rather have. Everyone here sugar coat it or tell ya the truth. We wouldn’t do you any justice by blowing smoke up your bum.

Louie means well. Everyone does. Relax, learn, teach, breathe, repeat. 73 my friend.

I carry an Olight on my keychain and the Q8 plus VG10s in the car. None of them would suit someone who is judging a light by the amount of led’s.

As for the phone light, after I brought up the suicide level of danger in using a phone light as an emergency light to change a tire, he disappeared. And so did his post.

As for judge, jury and executioner, that is EXACTLY what you are doing with your opinion of my opinion. Your high horse has the same legs as my high horse.

Are we done on this?

If not, take it to PM….

You might want to give this a read Spartan…… :smiley:
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*_Priceless)!_* . :+1:

Wow, this thread is cringey.

Most people just don’t care about flashlights. Fact. It’s a hobby that usually just isn’t worth broadcasting. Even a cheap Amazon light is perfectly adequate for most peoples’ needs in the grand scheme of things.

I have one friend who is into tech and he loves it when I take a new light over to his house and he proceeds to blind everything around him, but that’s it. Nobody else cares and I don’t bother them with it unless they ask. Even then it’s usually just “is that another new torch?” to which I just reply “yep, new toy”.

Did you show your keychain light to your lady friend? Is it brighter than a cellphone light? Hardly an EDC - not exactly what I’d carry in a dark alley way.

As to opinions, that’s where our differences lie. I merely stated how I felt you treated two fellow human beings. You believe they’re stupid as a matter of fact. That’s the issue I have. You seemingly believe that anyone that doesn’t agree with you or take your advice is stupid. Probably think I’m stupid too. I’m just sticking up for all the muggles - myself included.

And as this thread descends into chaos…

I’m over here like

I’m still on the fence on whether it was a satire post to begin with. It reminds me of that copypasta about the guy who eats in his car….

Whenever quoting gifs or images you have to put a space between the links ! and the
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… not sure why it doesn’t automatically but ohwell.

I hadn’t read that copypasta before and I can imagine the world wide eruption that would’ve taken place! Makes me wonder if it was written originally by an ultimate troll who knew how to make the world burn!

Most people these days are just askholes.

Honestly, I have the opposite problem.

When I go outside/when I use my flashlights during work, people actually notice, and start to ask questions…

This made me immediately envision the Wolf of Wall Street scene happening in real life between you and half of the BLF members.

“I tell you what. You show me you using your flashlight and people start asking questions, I quit my job RIGHT NOW and I work for you!”

Autoplaying GIFs are annoying, though.

I side 100% with the woman in this story. 30 seconds of advice is helpful. Spending 15 minutes with a stranger buying a flashlight is creepy. You were just trying to help, but she probably saw it as weird. I don’t blame her for being suspicious.

Frankly, you are probably lucky she only saw it as you being a shill. I would have pepper-sprayed you after 5 minutes. :wink:

Standing in Wally’s World looking at lites; this lady walks up to me and asks, what’s a good lite for hurricane season?
I replied, with me it would be blind lead the blind and we’d both end up in the dark; nevertheless I would guess that this (picking it up) 2c mag lite would be OK. Just then the guy working there walked up and said, Yes that’s a good one, I’ve had one for 5 years. :sunglasses:

:weary: :weary: :weary: but GIFs are like one of my favorite ways to communicate…

lol I get what you mean when it comes to quoted text. same GIF 17 times get’s old fast

unless it’s the best one ever! lol challenge accepted!

I usually only offer that advice to the guys who work with me. I hand over a thrower and a floody tube light both around 1K lumens. They use them for a day or two, tell me what they like about the light(s) and I tell them what kind of options there are.

I’ve put together a group buy when there was a good deal as well but those guys had already seen the lights compared to the stuff our department issues.

I started hiking again after about 2 decades. Brought my BLF GT70 on my backpack. Talk about conversation starter! Next week I brought my X80. An ice-breaker in more ways than one…