A few weeks ago, I went on a trip. By the time I arrived at the airport, my phone was a dead brick—obliging me to hunt down the nearest charging station and, upon spying one, immediately elbow in and seize it.
But you're never really alone at a charging station. I was sharing this one with a woman in the middle of a heated argument with somebody on her phone—still plugged in, just above mine.
I didn't want to be there, anxiously checking my social networks and waiting to be released. She clearly didn't want me there. But we were using a public utility, and we had to make do. So we sat very close together, each of us pretending the other woman didn't exist at all, and tried to continue our individual life trajectories unencumbered.
As she arched her back and shouted "WHY DON'T YOU GO LIVE WITH HIM?" our arms touched, tense yet somehow still feather-soft on contact, because that's the way you politely touch someone that you're trapped next to.
Perhaps inspired by moments like this, smartphone startup OnePlus released two ads that focus on how quickly you can charge your phone and, in essence, run away.