ThomasH
Newly Enlightened
I came home from a long sunny motorcycle ride Saturday, and when I came into the living room...
... there were most of my flashlights all stacked up on the dining table! I guess the time had finally come for a
Family Flashlight Intervention!
I had some close relatives visiting and I had given a young boy some friendly advice about prioritizing expenditures, you know - the idea that if you didn't spend your spare cash on candy and soda every day, but saved it instead, you could eventually buy really cool stuff that you can keep forever!
Well, I understand that after I left, his Mom was telling him that I may not be the best example of a wise, saving individual. Something about how the minute I gather an appreciable amount of money I blow it on something stupid, like, just for example,
**** Mom: "Do you have any idea how many _flashlights_ he owns?!?"
**** Boy: "No, what do you mean?"
**** Mom: "Let's collect all the flashlights we can find, and you'll see what I mean!"
. Flashlights Stacked on Dining Table
.
.And now I'm home, and when I look up from the table, they have the "very concerned" expression on their faces, and the Mom brought up the topic I had talked about earlier, concerning prioritizing expenditures!
First, I explained that the River Rocks were bought as gifts, but then again that's what I had said about a lot of the Pelicans I still have!
Then I reasoned how this is years and years of accumulation, and that technologies change so what was I supposed to do, throw out the older lights just because they have been superseded?
And finally I argued that this was actually a great example of exactly what I was talking about earlier, I mean just look at those cool lights that I have, for all kinds of different purposes, that I have carefully preserved for all these years! (I was particularly proud of this logic!!)
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Anyhow, by now the Mom is laughing her head off, and the Boy is grinning from ear-to-ear! I was probably beet red,
but I started to understand the situation may not have been as serious as I thought!
Fortunately she let me off the hook.
I had mentioned to her a thread on the CandlePowerForums, about how the value of all my flashlights may not be covered automatically by my renter's insurance, so I should gather them up and take a documentary picture to get a rider for them.
So she figured she could show her son a bit about me, and help me take the picture at the same time! And they turned it into an Easter Egg Hunt, scouring shelves, drawers and closets looking for flashlights. I have a lot of power failures where I live and have flashlights mounted all over my apartment in plastic clips from Nite-Ize. But being organized I also have a flashlight shelf where they could easily find the mother lode of lumenal paraphernalia!
Anyhow, I thanked them and I took the picture you see above, which will NOT truly allow me document my (really quite minor) accretion. After they left, later that night, I gathered up all the ones they missed (!) and took a picture I will actually use for the insurance!
Sorry to be so long-winded, it was just such a weird way to end a nice ride!
Take care folks!
- Thomas
I had some close relatives visiting and I had given a young boy some friendly advice about prioritizing expenditures, you know - the idea that if you didn't spend your spare cash on candy and soda every day, but saved it instead, you could eventually buy really cool stuff that you can keep forever!
Well, I understand that after I left, his Mom was telling him that I may not be the best example of a wise, saving individual. Something about how the minute I gather an appreciable amount of money I blow it on something stupid, like, just for example,
**** Mom: "Do you have any idea how many _flashlights_ he owns?!?"
**** Boy: "No, what do you mean?"
**** Mom: "Let's collect all the flashlights we can find, and you'll see what I mean!"
. Flashlights Stacked on Dining Table
.
.And now I'm home, and when I look up from the table, they have the "very concerned" expression on their faces, and the Mom brought up the topic I had talked about earlier, concerning prioritizing expenditures!
First, I explained that the River Rocks were bought as gifts, but then again that's what I had said about a lot of the Pelicans I still have!
Anyhow, by now the Mom is laughing her head off, and the Boy is grinning from ear-to-ear! I was probably beet red,
Fortunately she let me off the hook.
So she figured she could show her son a bit about me, and help me take the picture at the same time! And they turned it into an Easter Egg Hunt, scouring shelves, drawers and closets looking for flashlights. I have a lot of power failures where I live and have flashlights mounted all over my apartment in plastic clips from Nite-Ize. But being organized I also have a flashlight shelf where they could easily find the mother lode of lumenal paraphernalia!
Anyhow, I thanked them and I took the picture you see above, which will NOT truly allow me document my (really quite minor) accretion. After they left, later that night, I gathered up all the ones they missed (!) and took a picture I will actually use for the insurance!
Sorry to be so long-winded, it was just such a weird way to end a nice ride!
Take care folks!
- Thomas
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