[Prudence]

Someone replaced most of the light bulbs in our place with CFLs. Someone else, namely me, finds them annoying. Sure, they're fine when they warm up, but when I just want to pop on the light for a moment to put some laundry away, it's so dim to start off with. And by the time they're actually all the way on, I'm long done. So, there's no point in turning on the light at all, and I just put stuff away in the dark. Which, I suppose, saves energy, although not in the intended fashion. Or is it? Maybe it's a plot to make CFLs just useful enough that we'll buy them, but just annoying enough that we'll just do stuff in the dark rather than wait for them to actually turn on.