Phase Two Electrical

I was in London on vacation (or on holiday as the Brits say it) and my battery charger died. Yes, the smoke genie was released and I couldn’t charge my camera. This isn’t some $ 20 easy to find charger, this is a battery charger for a Canon 1D and the camera shops near by wanted to sell me one for 200 pounds. Luckily, they sent me to Phase Two and here, I met two gents who pointed me to the 12 volt adapters that I could use to charge my battery. The conversation went something like this:
Me: «I need a 12 volt power supply»
Them: «What kind of current?»
Me: «It doesn’t matter, something smaller and inexpensive.»
Them: «Look on the wall there and see if any of those will work.»
Me: «This one looks good.»
Them: «what’s it for?»
Me: «I need to charge this battery.»
Them: «You need a battery charger for that.»
Me: «I know, but the camera shops don’t have one to sell me.»
Them: «You can’t do that, you should take it to the camera shop.»
Me: «I’m pretty sure it will work.»
Them: «This isn’t a good idea.»
Me: «It’ll be fine.»
Them: «You’re going to get hurt.»
Me: «I’ve done it before.»
So they don’t understand the finer points of batteries and charging, but they did have exactly what I needed and that’s all that really counts. They even let me use some of their tools to kluge together my charger and their power supply for a semi-​permanent way to charge my battery for the remaining 14 days of my trip.
Thanks Phase 2!

Oh, do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
That lives on Drury Lane?
Nope. But I do know the electrical man on Drury Lane, so stick that in your song and sing it.
Times are tough muffin man, time to shape up and realise that lighting and power installations, electrical maintenance and cleaning contracts are much more practical.
You’ve gotta look to low hanging fruit in this economy, you know, like pathetic ex-​pats who constantly lose or give away their UK visitor adapters.