Don’t curse the flashlight when the problem is the batteries.
If you follow any of the prepper sites you find a lot of excitement about tactical flashlights, whatever those are. There is talk of lumens that will blind attackers and how you always need to have a flashlight on you. I don’t know about you but I need a flashlight for power outages and looking into corners a lot more than I need to stop Bruce Lee wannabes with a powerful surge of lumens. I sometimes find myself thinking of getting a new flashlight.
What I actually need to do is change the batteries.
If you are like me you have a lot of old flashlights around the house. They either don’t work at all or they are very dim and flicker. Sometimes the unit has been dropped once too often or it has batteries that have leaked. I have had to bend connections and once even found that by switching the heads on two Maglites they both started to work properly. Usually, however, it is just a need to change the batteries. I tried it recently. In each case the flashlight came to life and said, “Use me.”
You may have heard the old saying about lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness. Maybe if the sages were writing such things today it would be flashlights and batteries.
homo unius libri
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