It's perhaps the connected traveler's worst nightmare: arrive to your hotel, totally jet lagged and just wanting to charge your gadgets while you nap in order to get a fresh jump on a new city. BUT—this new city is in Switzerland, where they have freaky-deeky recessed, 3-hole electrical outlets. Will your adapter fit? There's a 50/50 chance it won't, thanks to brilliant Swiss engineering.
Luckily for everybody involved, you can force a regular 2-prong Euro plug into the 3-prong hole, but there's still the problem of the recession. If the plug is an itty-bitty 3 Euro adapter, you're golden. If it's a fancier option with plugs that flip out of it, then you've wasted your money. Sigh.
And we won't even start on the issues with plugging in Apple products to an outlet that looks like the one above. Those square white AC plugs on a diagonal slant...yea, you've to almost construct mini scaffolding to hold a plug in place.
Hmmm, this small rant against Swiss outlets has us thinking. Has Jerry Seinfeld ever done a "what's the deal with that" piece on them?
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