making fun of people who like flashlights?

Hi

just curios, anyone that made fun of you because you like flashlights?

My family/relatives laughing at me because i do.
I dont think they mean anything bad, but its still hets to me.

Why do People think this is fun? Its like any other collecter that collects What she/he likes…

please respond, feeling Kinda mad/angry/sad, i shouldnt, but iam…

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they just dont understand. my girlfriend and her mom poke fun, saying i got a flashlight fetish. i just laugh it off and pay no attention.
my girlfriend also thinks im a geek because i like to play with my camp stoves… among other things

Yes, exactly What they Said i have. A fetish.
And i have no Good explanation for them either. So they just think im a geek or something.

I just got into flashlights and a friend I work with makes fun of me all the time. The other day (we travel together) he lost his keys outside, its 430am when we get off and our parking lot isn’t lit well, I pulled out my light and he was pretty impressed.

Still makes fun but when they need it they’ll appreciate the fact you have one.

A few of the guys at some of the coach builders call me Jamie

Jamie and the magic torch was a kids show in the UK in the 80’s.

I laugh it off, why worry, i’m happy, couldn’t give a stuff what others think.

My girlfriend doesn’t mind so much, I get teased and sometimes called inspector gadget.

I just point out I could be in the pub every night drinking and womanizing, instead I’m home with my family, playing around, it amuses me and does no harm, and no-one complains when they need a light… :party:

My Wife thinks I am eccentric because I like collecting stuff including flashlights. Workmates tease me about carrying a ‘torch’ at work (Eoslamp SP11 on my keyring & Balder SE-2 in my coat pocket) except when someone needs to see into dark corners or check containers on the back yard in the early hours.

They actually think it’s kinda cool…. I think this stems from pre conditioning though. Being that I used to be a bit of a wild man. I think they are just happy my hobby is legal & not a sin.

Yeah funnily enough I get called Jamie too :bigsmile:

The thing is to make them aware of your hobby when they are fumbling with lighters or trying to light up something using the cell phone screen and having a hard time at it, then you simply say let me give you a hand and turn darkness into full blown afternoon daylight, then no one dares to say anything because you came prepared.

I usually get comments of Damn that is bright!, Is that a MiniMag? (LMAO), Where can I get one of those?

Yeah, that or torchy. Funny thing is, they mock, till they look at the crappy in-can their using or 9led 3aaa special.

Then you fire up something small with a well driven xm-l, there’s not much they can say to that. 8)

I just take in stride. Everyone has their “thing,” and flashlight collecting is one of the more benign things one can do. Usually people who are “collectors” for other things can relate.

It is a hobby that doesn’t harm anyone, can be very practical on occasion, and is relatively inexpensive compared to other hobbies I can think of. I know a guy who spends a fortune playing golf all the time. Some guys pay a mint for season tickets for a major sport team; others attend music concerts and pay 200+ for a ticket, if not more.

And we all have stories where having a flashlight handy saved the day - if not lives. I converted a few girlfriends over the years precisely because of situations ljust like that. And some of them have even found the form factor of some flashlights kind of erotic! :wink:

let me guess one of them is a romisen, cant remember the model, but looks erotic :stuck_out_tongue:

some people joke about it, or at least think it odd if i mention it.

but the people i go camping with are pretty impressed and envious…

Making fun of things that they do that don't make sense.

For example, easiest one, just ask if your mother in law has a foot fetish. When she looks at you like you're crazy just say "Well momsie you do have different shoes for every day of the year..."

Considering my other hobby is lasers... flashlights seem downright normal to most of my friends.

What if your mother in law cant see her feet? :wink:

Tell her that over eating is also a strange hobby!

That should do it.

you’re supposed to check for that BEFORE you marry her daughter 0:)

I'm used to being made fun of and it no longer fazes me. Before lights it was bikes, and I still get made fun of for wearing spandex and for having 6 bikes (I would have more bikes if they weren't so damned expensive). My wife was concerned when I picked up a couple of knives too, but I seem to have nipped that one in the bud: I've stopped at 2.

I get made fun of at work as well, because co-workers notice my package deliveries. But several have also come to me for advice on a good torch for camping or as gifts for Christmas. I've also had co-workers come by several times to borrow one of my lights for rummaging around under their desk trying to find a wire or an outlet. The building services manager knows to come see me when she needs a light!

My wife didn’t make fun of me when I had ten flashlights, because we had many blackouts during the construction of a big shopping mall near us and our site had a good forest. Then, I could spread my every light around the house and lot it up. That was fun. One day came and I had fifty lights. My wife wasn’t mad at me because she was an electronics engineer like me and a small amount of electronics were already in our lives. But, she could introduce me to her friends emphasizing how many lights I had, then I were the freak of that night.

Anyway, I now have a hundred lights, I gave five of them to my wife for her realty business, and as long as she thinks I have eighty lights, I’m fine. I just giveaway my bonus Thrunite Ti’s to friends to balance the medium. :slight_smile: