Batteries, why is it always batteries?
I suppose it's just a function of the times we live in - it seems everything needs a battery or two and all different sizes.
When I was in high school, the only things I owned that needed batteries was a Timex watch, a camera and a car. You replaced the battery when it stopped working, and you were good for another year, or two, or three, or more.
Not now. Devices are more sensitive, and batteries need replacing before they are completely exhausted. And they don't seem to last as long. And there are more of them. And the service isn't near what it was.
I'm looking at my car key, and the remote fob attached to it, and I know there is a battery in there for the times when I am too lazy to use the key in the door. But it's not the same size battery as the one in my camera, or my other camera, or in my watch, or in the house alarm remote.
I miss being a kid, when all I had to worry about was flashlight batteries, and either triple a or a nine volt battery for a radio. That was it. Two, at most three kinds of batteries, that you could buy at any store and be on your way. Yesterday I was in a store staring at a wall of batteries, all different sizes, shapes and voltages. With an empty spot for the kind I wanted to buy.
I'll try again today at another store. The kind I want should be easy to find, it will be the empty spot on the wall of batteries.
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