The Old Coot is plug
challenged.
By Merlin Lessler
I have a plug problem. For
most of my lifetime, I could plug something into a wall outlet with ease: two
slots, two prongs, in they go. Now, because of an overprotective bureaucratic safety
edict, I’m stuck with a wide prong and a narrow one and a wide and narrow slot.
You would think a person has a fifty-fifty chance of getting the plug lined up
the right way. Not the case. Not for me, anyhow. It’s more like one in ten
chances of getting it right.
Oh sure, if I went and
grabbed my reading glasses, I could get it right the first time. But I don’t,
and thus, I have a plug problem. And, not just with electric lamps and
appliances. It’s the same with USB and HDMI plugs. I also seem to get them
wrong most of the time. And, my cell phone charger and plug, until just
recently, when my new Samsung phone came with a plug that is indifferent to
which way you plug it in. If I’d had an Apple phone, I never would have had the
problem. But, being a cheapskate and opting for a phone that cost one fifth
that of an I-phone, I’ve had to deal with a phone plug problem for more than a
decade. It’s why I like my Apple I-pad so much, a gift from my oldest daughter
seven years ago. Never a plug problem with that device.
I recently moved to an
apartment in a house a block or so down the street from our well-loved two
hundred and eighteen-year-old residence. It’s one of those life adjustments you
make to accommodate the aging process. But it wasn’t easy -all those plugs; all
those slots. It was a wrong-way, plug festival. My wrist is still sore from
twisting it to get the plugs to line up with the slots. The wrist will get
better, my plug problem won’t.
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