Good idea? Filled up at a petrol (gas) station this morning – yes it’s payday – and noticed a bargain offer. Bargain offers seem like a good idea at the time but usually spend their lives gathering dust in the drawer you’re always meaning to clean out.
This offer? It was a wind up flashlight that also was an emergency phone charger , complete with adapters for just about every type of phone and all this for 10.99. I don’t know where I found the strength of will to resist but I did.
Some years ago when Trevor Bayliss invented the wind up radio, it was a real breakthrough. No batteries required. People in remote villages in Africa could now be in touch with local and world news – not to mention being able to discover Michael Jackson and lots more. It wasn’t cheap but relief organizations would get sponsorship and get enough of them out there to fill a gap.
Coming back to the wind-up flashlight/emergency charger; as a flashlight you’d need a fairly large pocket to accommodate it and so as likely as not, it’d spend most of it’s time at home.
One day perhaps you’ll find yourself in a situation where you need to urgently need to make a phone call, and shoot, you’ve got a flat battery. You forgot to charge it. You also forgot to take your car charger out of the other car. No problem. Take out your wind-up emergency charger, the correct adapter and 10 minutes winding – ignoring the searing pain in the broken arm (the emergency in this case) and, if you have reception, help will soon be on the way.
Then the awful reality hits you – you’ve left the emergency charger in the drawer you’d been promising yourself you’d tidy out.
Tip!!! Scientists have discovered that singing ‘Happy to Be’ for between 2 and 5 minutes will charge your phone enough to make that call.
‘Hello, this is an SOS. Can you root around in that drawer and find the emergency charger and bring it to……’
Now what can I do with 10.99? Suggestions please
Happy to Be
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