I’ve had them burn/die/short out but I don’t know that I ever lost one. I left one at the hospital once and just didn’t go back to get it. Lots of people don’t bring a charger to the hospital so someone could definitely use it! But again, it was forgotten there not lost.
@Lynnerizer
I keep several chargers and cables as well as an “octopus” style set of plugs in my go to work backpack that enables me to charge basically any phone out there. This has saved me more than once in the ER for patients whose phones died when they needed to be discharged so they can find someone to come get them.
@chienfou
Ah ha, YOU are one of those lifesaver nurses! Pun intended! A double duty lifesaver! I appreciate you for all the people who don’t tell you. I’m sure you already know this but not all nurses go above and beyond like that.
@chienfou@Lynnerizer Well, Linnerizer beat me to it. Whatever you do in the ER, it sounds like you care about the patients, so thank you! Keep up the good work.
@andyw@Lynnerizer
Thank you both for your kind words. It always amazes me that folks get into medicine as a career that don’t like other people!
After 30 years as an ER nurse I technically retired last July (@69). Ive been doing a bunch of traveling since then, but still work 2 to 4 days a month in order to help fill in slots that they can’t cover, or for the nurses to go to grandkids/kids baseball games etc, etc. This keeps me on my toes, as well as having a few extra $$ for those trips! (I actually worked a few days last week for just those reasons).
@69@andyw@chienfou
You’re welcome!
After 30 years of ER work you deserve to be enjoying yourself in your retirement! And, it doesn’t surprise me at all that YOU are THAT person who fills in so others can take the time off to be with their family on important occasions.
My aunt was head nurse at our local hospital for over 45 years. It was always so comforting that I had a professional to call, especially when my stepson was small. Having a 14 month old baby that had endless, sleepless nights with the croup was a little scary for this childless young girl.
And BTW, what’s up with that username @69, is that REALLY a person’s username? I mean I know you were referring to your age but it sure looks like one…
Forgot one in a hotel once. Lost at home as in which drawer did I stick it in? I keep the old style when I have to switch to something new. It has both saved me from buying a replacement and frustrated me looking for a specific one. I really need to declutter and find a new home for a bunch of stuff
I have not lost one that I am aware of. Looks like only about 14 of us wanted to brag about it! A lot of companies believe you have not lost them since they decided to stop supplying them in many cases.
I don’t lose stuff often, but my stuff goes missing all the time.
Here’s why.
I’m the dad who has all the chargers and cables and batteries. When my kids (and wife too) lose their chargers, they come to me and “borrow” mine. Then, surprise surprise, they lose that one too. So now I have to get more from meh and keep these in my “soon to be lost” stash.
@pakopako Our libraries also have 3D printers, flatbed scanners, VCRs with capture cards and Desktop computers for video editing and such. You can check out Midi controllers, GoPros and podcast equipment. They even have a robot!
And an almost working “Baby Pac-Man” machine!
I couldn’t even imagine trying to do IT for our library!
Shout out to Chuck who does that IT stuff for the library!
I checked in at a Hilton Garden Inn a few years ago and almost immediately discovered that my usual phone charger brick wasn’t in the kit bag. The front desk had a bigger-than-breadbox collection of bricks and cables that they were delighted to let me select one from, and those were just the ones that had been in Lost & Found for more than a month and presumed abandoned. OTOH, about an hour after checking out from a Days Inn in SLC just west of downtown, I realized that I’d left the spare battery and charger for my mini receipt printer in the wall socket next to the sink, and immediately called them. They said that the room had already been cleaned and the charger and battery had apparently been trashed. I’ll never stay at that location again; they didn’t even try to have a Lost & Found for stuff that was left behind by mistake.
@werehatrack I dropped my charger when packing recently. I was not smart enough to look at it until I went to plug it in at the hotel. Of course the connector was snapped and not an easy fix. Tried the desk and all they had was an ancient version for sale. Lost and found was locked in housekeeping and the girl looked at me like I from Mars when I asked. Of course I had multiple cables at home but bought another rather than drive 6 hours.
I was on a cross-country Amtrak trip and when I arrived at my Airbnb in Chicago after the first leg of the trip, I couldn’t find the power supply for my laptop. I left it in my roomette in the train, so I took an Uber to Microcenter in Chicago, bought a new one, then an Uber back. It was the most expensive power supply I’ve ever bought, but at least I could use the laptop for the rest of the ten-day trip.
I haven’t lost a charging block either and I have plenty from Meh.
Can’t remember the last time
Yeah, why is “nowhere/never” not a choice?
I mean, I guess I’ve misplaced a few in my house but I have them somewhere.
I’ve never lost one, and if I had, how would I know where I lost it?
@stolicat
It was in the last place you liked before you found it…
Yo mamma!
I don’t think I have ever lost one. I have so many though I could be wrong.
I’m actually amazed to see I’m not only not the only person to have never consciously lost one, but I seem to also be in the majority! Huh.
I’ve had them burn/die/short out but I don’t know that I ever lost one. I left one at the hospital once and just didn’t go back to get it. Lots of people don’t bring a charger to the hospital so someone could definitely use it! But again, it was forgotten there not lost.
@Lynnerizer
I keep several chargers and cables as well as an “octopus” style set of plugs in my go to work backpack that enables me to charge basically any phone out there. This has saved me more than once in the ER for patients whose phones died when they needed to be discharged so they can find someone to come get them.
@chienfou
A double duty lifesaver! 
I appreciate you for all the people who don’t tell you. I’m sure you already know this but not all nurses go above and beyond like that. 
Ah ha, YOU are one of those lifesaver nurses! Pun intended!
@chienfou @Lynnerizer Well, Linnerizer beat me to it. Whatever you do in the ER, it sounds like you care about the patients, so thank you! Keep up the good work.
@andyw @Lynnerizer
Thank you both for your kind words. It always amazes me that folks get into medicine as a career that don’t like other people!
After 30 years as an ER nurse I technically retired last July (@69). Ive been doing a bunch of traveling since then, but still work 2 to 4 days a month in order to help fill in slots that they can’t cover, or for the nurses to go to grandkids/kids baseball games etc, etc. This keeps me on my toes, as well as having a few extra $$ for those trips! (I actually worked a few days last week for just those reasons).
@69 @andyw @chienfou
You’re welcome!
After 30 years of ER work you deserve to be enjoying yourself in your retirement! And, it doesn’t surprise me at all that YOU are THAT person who fills in so others can take the time off to be with their family on important occasions.
My aunt was head nurse at our local hospital for over 45 years. It was always so comforting that I had a professional to call, especially when my stepson was small. Having a 14 month old baby that had endless, sleepless nights with the croup was a little scary for this childless young girl.
And BTW, what’s up with that username @69, is that REALLY a person’s username? I mean I know you were referring to your age but it sure looks like one…
@chienfou @Lynnerizer oh no, those octopus wires always die on me after a weekend
Mine don’t disappear, they multiply. I just dropped off a gallon size ziploc bag full of bricks at Goodwill.
Thanks for creating the thread.
I’ve never lost any either. For fun, here’s an AI version of a drawer full of them.
Forgot one in a hotel once. Lost at home as in which drawer did I stick it in? I keep the old style when I have to switch to something new. It has both saved me from buying a replacement and frustrated me looking for a specific one. I really need to declutter and find a new home for a bunch of stuff
@speediedelivery This
I have not lost one that I am aware of. Looks like only about 14 of us wanted to brag about it! A lot of companies believe you have not lost them since they decided to stop supplying them in many cases.
@andyw
Yeah, companies don’t include them anymore yet they still write in their manuals to use one specific to their product!
Um, if I knew where I lost it, it wouldn’t be lost.
I don’t lose stuff often, but my stuff goes missing all the time.
Here’s why.
I’m the dad who has all the chargers and cables and batteries. When my kids (and wife too) lose their chargers, they come to me and “borrow” mine. Then, surprise surprise, they lose that one too. So now I have to get more from meh and keep these in my “soon to be lost” stash.
@xenophod ever consider doing IT at a library? It is exactly that role (and probably pay) - but you get to fight over a budget!
@pakopako Our libraries also have 3D printers, flatbed scanners, VCRs with capture cards and Desktop computers for video editing and such. You can check out Midi controllers, GoPros and podcast equipment. They even have a robot!
And an almost working “Baby Pac-Man” machine!
I couldn’t even imagine trying to do IT for our library!
Shout out to Chuck who does that IT stuff for the library!
I checked in at a Hilton Garden Inn a few years ago and almost immediately discovered that my usual phone charger brick wasn’t in the kit bag. The front desk had a bigger-than-breadbox collection of bricks and cables that they were delighted to let me select one from, and those were just the ones that had been in Lost & Found for more than a month and presumed abandoned. OTOH, about an hour after checking out from a Days Inn in SLC just west of downtown, I realized that I’d left the spare battery and charger for my mini receipt printer in the wall socket next to the sink, and immediately called them. They said that the room had already been cleaned and the charger and battery had apparently been trashed. I’ll never stay at that location again; they didn’t even try to have a Lost & Found for stuff that was left behind by mistake.
@werehatrack I dropped my charger when packing recently. I was not smart enough to look at it until I went to plug it in at the hotel. Of course the connector was snapped and not an easy fix. Tried the desk and all they had was an ancient version for sale. Lost and found was locked in housekeeping and the girl looked at me like I from Mars when I asked. Of course I had multiple cables at home but bought another rather than drive 6 hours.
I was on a cross-country Amtrak trip and when I arrived at my Airbnb in Chicago after the first leg of the trip, I couldn’t find the power supply for my laptop. I left it in my roomette in the train, so I took an Uber to Microcenter in Chicago, bought a new one, then an Uber back. It was the most expensive power supply I’ve ever bought,
but at least I could use the laptop for the rest of the ten-day trip.
It fell out of my pocket at Aldi.