On the Lighter Side

In my bedroom and in my room that I am letting my daughter use we have three way light bulbs.  There never seems to be anything wrong with a three way until it actually occurs or is in use.  I will focus on just the light bulb three way. The idea is great, you can adjust the light according to your needs.  There are a lot of problems however.  Let's start with the elephant in the room - who uses the middle setting?  You either want is really bright to see what you are doing or just enough light to see for a nightlight or mood lighting.  No one ever wants it to be brighter than a low, subtle light but not so bright to read or do anything detailed by. The solution to this one is eliminate the second way of the three way light.  The other problem with these bulbs is the big problem.  When you turn them on you get the dimmest setting, followed by the irrelevant middle setting, followed by the brightest setting.  The problem with this is that you cannot use it at night because you only turn the knob once to turn it on, then you do whatever you do, then you go to turn it off because you want darkness.  Hold on, first you have to turn the knob several more turns just to cut the light off.  In the meantime the light gets BRIGHTER with every turn thus blinding you while at the same time making you super annoyed.  There is nothing worse that turning off a light to go to bed and in doing so making your room as bright as possible.  My solution is this - just use a regular light bulb.  What's the point of the settings?  If you want that choice get a dimmer, otherwise deal with the one light setting that has been fine for people since the beginning of light bulbs.

"No, three way BULB...you have to read the whole sentence."