Some Gum to Spare

So for my M Com class I was given an assignment to “give a stranger a coke” and write a blog post about it.  Now I need to confess my sin: I didn't give a stranger a coke.  However I didn't something similar and I felt that it had the same effect.

I was sitting in the airport waiting for a flight when I saw a woman trying to find a place to plug in her phone.  When I saw her doing this it reminded me that I ought to charge my computer so I took out my charger and saw that there was an outlet under my seat.  I informed the woman and scooted over to make some space for her so that she could sit next to me and charge her phone.  As I plugged in my computer charger I noticed immediately that the outlet wasn't working, in fact it appeared that none of the nearby outlets were working.  My computer said it had 40 minutes of charge left in it and our takeoff time was in almost 40 minutes so I decided that plugging in my computer wouldn't make too big of a difference.  I felt bad for the woman who couldn't charge her phone so I asked her if she’d like to plug her phone into my computer to charge it.  She was very grateful and said she would really appreciate that.  It made my computer die a little sooner than I had hoped but I was grateful for the change to help out a stranger.

As my new friend and I sat there I heard the man next to me ask his wife for some gum, she said that is was buried deep in her bag.  I quickly responded that I could give him a piece of gum and he accepted.  So I didn't end up giving anyone a coke but I was able to give some charge and some gum.