look before you leap
My computer’s AC adapter died a few months ago, right in the middle of a project with an immediate deadline. Thinking it would take weeks to get a replacement from Dell I rushed out and purchased an expensive universal, works with almost every computer ever invented adapters, at one of those electronic stores I rarely venture into. It worked. But my computer refused to recognize the foreign adapter, thereby refusing to recharge the computer’s battery.
Still I was content. I had power, finished my piece by deadline, and all was well with my world. Then the prongs on the foreign adapter got bent and it stopped working. No battery power, no AC adapter, no computer. Death to a writer.
Thank goodness I’ve got this wonderful little digital voice recorder. No great American novels lost forever.
Frantically I borrowed a computer, because no one can actually contact Dell by phone, in spite of their television commercials. It takes an expert to determine which parts to order. I’m not an expert, but I did find the correct adapter. It cost less than half the price of the universal adapter and was delivered in only two days.
Reminded me of that old adage, “Haste makes waste.”
We should pay more attention to adages, fables, old wives’ tales. We should pay more attention to that little voice inside our heads that tells us to avoid those places into which we rarely dare to venture. Subconsciously we know better.
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