My dad was an outdoors man too, loved fishing, hunting, camping, boating, hiking, and traveling, just to name a few. I can't possibly count the times we got loaded up at the weekend, stuffed into the back of a station wagon on blankets and driven through the night halfway across the state(the Texas one) and woke up at daylight to the sound of lake swells on the bank and dad cranking up the Coleman stove, fishing all day, and going to sleep that night to a Coleman lantern slowly fading away.
Years later I was in TN on a new job, in a new town, and working on getting a place fixed up at night, even before getting the water and electricity turned on. After work I took off to the outskirts of town to a Walmart hoping to get rigged up with some lighting and such. Lo and behold, they had a huge package of Coleman flashlights, i think about 10 of them, and i bought the name, this was early to mid 90s.
After getting back across town again through some awful traffic and opening that particular package I was appalled at what I discovered, the most pathetic excuse of a product I had ever encountered. Coleman had sold their name for money to a Chinese firm, who had turned it into something of a scam. The money it had cost was not so important to me then, but the next evening after work i again took the long congested drive across town once more, this time to unload the poor excuse of a product back on the same store where it had came from, Walmart, which had also recently changed hands
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