Posted December 02, 2019
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It's pretty lame, but when you purchase stuff at Christmas generally you get a little carried away and buy things that either someone really didn't want much, or are such poor quality that they break if not in 12 months the do a few years later. Not to mention electronic stuff that just goes out of date in an instant (lol). I don't have many memories of gift giving past mainly due to that, save one:
One Christmas in the 90s I purchased for my father a really, really decent Maglite security torch. Over 1ft long, strong aluminium casing, powered by 4x D-cells, really bright standard bulb with a focusing adjustment, the works. One of those bl--dy heavy ones that you saw ad-nauseam in action movies which if you cracked someone over the head with it you'd at least give them a concussion.
Why bother with this anecdote? He's still using it. It's the go-to torch for every midnight animal check, every power-gone-out meter check. It consumes batteries like a beast and although it doesn't perform quite as well as the ultra-bright halogens or LEDs now popular but it's there. Enamel paint scratched, casing a little bruised, but functional and beloved. Every time it gets picked up it's a reminder of the happiness my dad had in his eyes when I bought it for him as a kid so long ago. I didn't have much and the torch was expensive back then, but TOTALLY worth it. Nothing like a gift still giving decades later.
NOT in this year PaterAlf & Skimmie. I've had many gifts this year from so many others which are still making me happy. Have a great Christmas y'all.
One Christmas in the 90s I purchased for my father a really, really decent Maglite security torch. Over 1ft long, strong aluminium casing, powered by 4x D-cells, really bright standard bulb with a focusing adjustment, the works. One of those bl--dy heavy ones that you saw ad-nauseam in action movies which if you cracked someone over the head with it you'd at least give them a concussion.
Why bother with this anecdote? He's still using it. It's the go-to torch for every midnight animal check, every power-gone-out meter check. It consumes batteries like a beast and although it doesn't perform quite as well as the ultra-bright halogens or LEDs now popular but it's there. Enamel paint scratched, casing a little bruised, but functional and beloved. Every time it gets picked up it's a reminder of the happiness my dad had in his eyes when I bought it for him as a kid so long ago. I didn't have much and the torch was expensive back then, but TOTALLY worth it. Nothing like a gift still giving decades later.
NOT in this year PaterAlf & Skimmie. I've had many gifts this year from so many others which are still making me happy. Have a great Christmas y'all.