My kids today after my friends and I came back from local sporting goods store and comparing their 200.00 $ dollar name brand torches to my friend’s and my budget XMLC8 and when we got home busted up laughing at what they were asking for and low output of these high dollar name brand lights my 19 year old son chimed in said dad you realize these are just lights. !? Oh boy I almost lost it and threatened to leaving him out in the middle of the desert. Without just a flashlight and see how he felt bout just a light! Maybe I was iust a little oversensitive? EDIT I have since apologized to him guess I went a little overboard
You think? :)…
Jim
Close your eyes & breath slowly for 1 minute.
Yes. I did that and apologized just been walking In dark about 10 years ago after battery went dead on old light stopped in prickly pear got infection and almost lost foot had surgeries to cut out gangrene all I ffeel could have been prevented if I had newer modern lights
Nearly losing a foot to gangrene can certainly change someone’s outlook! Now that is understandable.
Just leave them in the dark to feel around for a while and they soon appreciate the light that dear old Dad protects them with… ” Here son, try this 
In fairness they are just lights (am I allowed to say that here?) not really worth abandoning family members in arid climates over 
You best hush there buddy…Thats grounds for ban hammering hehe
I think it’s funny when people think they are “just flashlights” but they shall not get the last laugh. You can see shoes/clothes/jewelery(women 
) in the dark, UNLESS YOU HAVE MY MAJORLY FANTASTICALLY AWESOME LUMEN PRODUCING PIECE OF LOVELY TECHNOLOGY, or flashlight to be blunt….
no kidding!
WOW! Think about what is important in life. In the overall scheme of things flashlights are very low in importance. Sure they are necessary at times and in certain circumstances, but unless you are a caver, or climbing Everest or something similar you seldom really need a flashlight.
A flashlight won’t look after you in your old age, but a son will (I hope.) I would also hope no one loves a flashlight as he loves his family.
Get life’s priorities in order.
Jerry
They are just lights. Very good ones.
be more patient
Well to be honest I have type 1diabetes that contributed to gangrene and qe actually live in the middle of the desert we are 20 miles from closest street lights to be fair he’ s a good kid works part time and goes to school fulltime and doesn’t have my addictive habits and I have apologized to him
Don’t all of us say and do things we wish we had not? I sure have, and more than once or 1000. You have apologized to him, and I am sure he accepts it. Go on with life and your relationship.
I live in southern NM and understand the fact that everything in the desert bites or sticks. I once sat down when hunting in the shade where a cholla had dropped some tubercles. It did not take me long to learn that it was not a pleasant place to sit. Never again will I sit close to a cholla. 
Have a good day.
Jerry
Man cholla (jumping cactus) really dig in! I bmp lived in Animas for 3 years liked but desolate
Nowadays a flashlight is very important thing for everyone (I think so), but our family members are the most important in our life. Don’t worry…be happy 
+1…
Next time your boy gets excited about his new iPad, Xbox, computer, car part, or whatever he enjoys, tell him “hey man, it’s JUST a _”
Sometimes I feel like we should pass out flyers for this forum and our favorite vendors at outdoor stores and such. Most people have no clue what they are missing and how much they are overpaying for shit lights.
Wow. This thread wasn’t at all what I expected. I thought someone’s son was in trouble for owning a “suspicious” flashlight or using it inproperly.
I think an apology was the right thing to do. Kids are usually pretty forgiving. Life moves on…