The first one I saw looked a lot like ours, but just didn't have the little holes:
Ok, that's no big deal. Although those bits of molded plastic hanging off the bottom are pretty shoddy work. I wonder what the holes in ours are for, anyway?
Then I saw this thing:
Weird. And that bit of plastic that keeps the adapter body away from the surface, what's the point of that? This whole thing is a bit structurally unstable when plugged in.
Naturally, I need to be able to plug in my stuff. The wall outlets here are actually roughly the same as ours. The slits are the same size, accommodating that first plug above. But they're not grounded, and they operate at 240 volts or something like that, so I need adapters. They happen to have some:
Seems pretty universal, I guess. But that's kind of unsettling. Is this thing really dropping the voltage to proper levels for my devices? Or just close enough to make them kind of work for now? Also, that grounding slot is kind of superfluous. It's needed to plug things in, which is fine. But there are leads within it. What do those leads do? The other side of the adapter has no grounding lead going to the wall. (The outlet pictured is the only one I've seen with a grounding slot at all.)
I can get past all of this, were it not for one little detail. The hot/cold slots on all outlets and all adapters are the same size. However, some devices form the US have one larger lead:
Therefore, I have one device that I can't plug in. Anywhere. And, therefore, can't use. It's only my trimmer, so I need to groom myself without it. Not an emergency. Just a bit annoying.
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