Yesterday, at Arundel Mills, I ran across this free cell
phone charging station sponsored by Toyota .
My first instinct was to dismiss this as nothing short of gimmick. I just couldn’t
imagine anyone standing there for an hour or more waiting for their phone to
recharge and it certainly wouldn’t be wise to leave a phone charging while you
went off and shopped.
Then I read the instructions. This is an emergency charger. Its
only purpose is giving your phone a temporary boost with a fifteen minute
charge. I immediately thought of my teenaged daughter. It is easy to imagine
how a day at the mall, texting and talking with abandon, could drain the juice
out of a phone and leave her incommunicado. A fifteen visit with the charging
station would be enough to restore her mobile lifeline.
It’d be nice to see one of these in every mall.
