Orlean: ‘For The Well-Equipped Traveller, the Wall Outlet is the Mothership’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.23.10 | 12:05 PM ET
Susan Orlean’s latest blog post at the New Yorker goes where most travelers have to go these days: In search of electrical outlets.
In the last couple of years, I noticed that competition for the outlets had gotten stiffer and stiffer, as more people carried more gizmos needing juice; often, there were lines to get a turn, and sometimes a huffy “Are you going to be using the outlet for much longer?” that betokened scarcity and a rising panic. The squatting and searching, the anxious scooting behind the ticket-agent desks in unused gate areas to try to score an unnoticed outlet, got a little more frantic.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
