Travel Splice
Let’s say you’re on the road and you’ve forgotten your cellphone charger. If you’ve got a fairly common type of phone, locate a hotel, the larger and more generic the chain the better, and ask the person at the counter if they recently found a plug of your type, which you forgot on a previous visit not long ago.
Nine times out of ten they’ll hand you a free plug.
This is sublime. The odds are someone lost a plug that will fit. I wonder if it would work with expensive watches and leather shoes?
“Excuse me, I left a big wad of money lying around my room the last time I was here…”