You don’t want just one flashlight in a scenario like that. You should have every flashlight you’ve ever considered selling and a few that you don’t think you’d ever consider, in case someone wants to make you an offer you can’t refuse. Then, don’t let anyone borrow any flashlights. It’s buy or stay in the dark! :smiling_imp:
when you EDC 1 light and think”what if this light has trobule” than you carry 1 more, and then you keep thinking” what if this light has trouble too”. then you carry another new one, and so on…
Until you carry your whole collection of your lights
• You sleep with a small torch (1xAA or smaller) clipped to your shirt or bottoms (or if you’re that kind, a bigger one like 1x18650) in case you have to get up at “rooster coffee” AM.
I think on my floor there’s one guy who carries a mini maglite, but with a LARGE number of windows, and the generators, it would take a lot more than a blackout to show off my lights. Even though I use it and loan it periodically for finding things under desks and cubicles.
It’s always the same: expect 98% of the “peasants” where you work or study to not have a dedicated light on them. At best they’ll have phone flashes to eat up their batteries. I know for a fact only one person where I work has a light, and it’s one of those cheapo zoomies with a terrible blue tint.
The only other concession in the place is one of those emergency LED wall lamps (that usually stay, you know, plugged on the wall and turn on when they’re not being fed power through the outlet) used as a lantern – and even that much is only because the big boss of the place (agreeable but ignorant lady) paid out of pocket after a blackout come dusk time led us to close early because of security concerns (books are valuable!), and the total murk inside led to MUCH criticism. The front entrance/exit that evening was only lit up because I lent my own lights to the co-workers there, which was something that I’m not forced at all to do and I made it very clear that day; don’t want some small time sycophant boss wannabe thinking that courtesy was an obligation. :cowboy_hat_face:
(And even that one was following another, shorter blackout in full daylight a week or two before that plunged the inside of the place into the murk, despite the translucid skylight in the middle of the building and the windows all around the walls.)
On a nicer note, I don’t hear any teasing over carrying 3+ torches on me, and I convinced a workmate to buy a Lumintop Tool CRI on a US$10 sale Next item I’m gonna promote is the Zanflare F2, because AA’s
I normally have a few in my bag, but yeah, I don’t want anyone taking any of mine into the can with them, so it’s buy or go all Helen Keller down the hallway.
When you play the XBox 360 game Alan Wake (highly recommended for a flashaholic) and afterward, build a light to specifically replicate the beam pattern and performance of the titular character’s flashlight.
I did.
And for those who haven’t played the game, your flashlight is your most valuable weapon. Throughout the ENTIRE game. Other than some gratuitous product placement, that game was extremely atmospheric and very fun.