Shoutout to the Northgate coffee shop that let me beg a charge off their barista
My power bank died at 6 percent on a Tuesday in Seattle while I was waiting on a bus that never came, and my phone was my only way to get home. I walked into a coffee shop near Northgate and asked if I could sit by the outlet for ten minutes, and the barista just slid a spare cable across the counter without saying a word. Turns out that cable had a crimped end from getting shut in a door, and it only worked if I held it at a weird angle. Now I check the ends of every cable before I trust it on a trip. What is your go-to way to test a cable before you rely on it out in the world?