Travel Tip
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If you do a lot of travel and I used to do more than my fair share, you learn little things that come in handy over time. I was chatting with Rob Novak, and one of the things I was telling him, is that very often when travelling internationally if you don't have a travel adapter for your computers power adapater, you will often find the cord for the kettle in your room will fit it. If your adapter takes the cord that looks like 3 melted circles, and the kettle adapter looks like the sort that goes into the back of a desktop computer or monitor, then another trick (which I highly recommend you don't leave in the room alone as it can spark and can lead to fire, but how I know that I'm not saying) is to shove the US plug end really hard into the end of the kettle adapter, this method should only be used in a real emergency, but it does work if you shove it hard enough.
If you do a lot of travel and I used to do more than my fair share, you learn little things that come in handy over time. I was chatting with Rob Novak, and one of the things I was telling him, is that very often when travelling internationally if you don't have a travel adapter for your computers power adapater, you will often find the cord for the kettle in your room will fit it. If your adapter takes the cord that looks like 3 melted circles, and the kettle adapter looks like the sort that goes into the back of a desktop computer or monitor, then another trick (which I highly recommend you don't leave in the room alone as it can spark and can lead to fire, but how I know that I'm not saying) is to shove the US plug end really hard into the end of the kettle adapter, this method should only be used in a real emergency, but it does work if you shove it hard enough.
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I hope not to need that any more; as I just got the rockin best adapters (a pair) for plugging our ultra safe grounded, low voltage comfortably sized U.S. plugs into your incredibly dangerous, huge, frankenstein like U.K. plugs.
I can hard wait for my next seven hour plane ride.
Posted by Andrew Pollack At 11:58:44 AM On 05/28/2004 | - Website - |