Everytime a package comes in the mailbox that has a Chinese return address, she give me this sideways look and says I have Obsessive Compulsive Flashlight Disorder. Usually that is followed by a statement like;
"How many flashlights do you need?"
"Where are you going to put that one?"
"What does that part do?"
"I've never seen a weird battery like that..."
"You're on a *what* forum? Are you looking at porn in there?"
"You are just tooo strange" Shrugs shoulders and goes back to American Idol.
And all I can think is that I *really* want a yellow Streamlight...and I wonder if anyone has reviewed anything good on BLF that I didn't know about.
My wife is ok with flashlights. She says they are better hobby than guns. She has said to me exactly same things as troops, just replace "flashlights" with "guns" and "battery" with "thing". Currently I have more guns than flashlights. I think when everything that's underway to me arrives, they are even. At some point, about three or four guns ago she said that if I bought more guns, she will buy a dog (I'm not that great animal person myself). Well, I did. And so did she. Turns out dogs are ok.
But seriously, lights are cool to play with. You can buy them with pocket money, no licenses needed and you can just order them online whenever and from wherever you like. Guns are royal PITA to get where I live. All that licensing BS. Plus that they are expensive. And it's next to impossible to get anything from U.S these days. Even scopes or mags. Export regulations, they say.
Haha “flashlights are the medicine” beautiful.
I also have a gun thing that my wife even feeds and encourages but you can’t buy guns all the time. I can buy flashlights much more often and use them in the house. More immediate gratification in this hobby.
I get the "eye roll" which is followed with a "how many flashlights do you need?" and "how many flashlights do you already have?" questions. I answer with a "how many pairs of shoes do you have?" and "how many pair can you wear at one time?" Fight fire with fire.
They do prescribe lights where I work. Not portable or battery-powered ones though. Google for Seasonal Affective Disorder. It's Disturbo affettivo stagionale according to Google Translate but there doesn't seem to be an article in it.wikipedia.org. This is probably because it is unheard of in Italy - it is a northern thing where the days get very short in winter.
