Batteries and their elusiveness
 

So I've just spent about half an hour searching for a single AA battery. Whenever I need one, they are nowhere to be found.

Same goes with AAAs, which are otherwise plentiful when I'm searching for AAs.

Am I the only one that has this problem?

It's even worse when they're rechargeable batteries; those things cost a shitload.

Even worse is when you know where that pile of dead batteries are, and you're filtering through them to find the one that at least has an ounce of life left. To no avail :(

Fuck you batteries. You suck.

My Gameboy Pocket eats through two AAA batteries in a day’s worth of playing Pokemon Yellow. I’ve been playing it while at work for the last two weeks. Luckily if my personal supply runs out I can walk over to the warehouse and requisition industrial strength ones for the “remotes in our office.”

I have this problem as it applies to silverware.

I've got rechargable batteries for all my stuff, and I haven't had to buy one battery in like four years.

Not like at my old job though. Most of what I did was checking used toys to see if they worked. For that you need batteries. And in this workplace, expensive things had a tendency to disappear, so I had to bitch about it for two years until I got a set of rechargable ones. By then my supplies were:

*1 jar of used batteries salvaged from toys, mostly AA, a few D and A and I think two AAA. Good luck figuring out if they have run dry or if the toy you're testing isn't working.
* 4 rechargable AA batteries.
* 2 rechargable A batteries.
* 1 dead 9v battery.

Over the course of the five years I worked there I figure I threw away between two and five metric tons of electronic entertainment, including a Sega Game Gear, what I hope was an imitation AIBO and innumerable RC cars, without knowing if they could have been sold for good money or not. The budget for my department was I think the cheapest of anything the city's paid for in its history, because we had so close zero expenses. But it was therefore also technically the most profitable, so it was all good.

Just had to get that off my chest.

It's the battery gnomes. They sneak around the cupboards and come out to steal batteries to power cockroach generators.

Step 1: Steal batteries
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Pofit!