Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2022
I was up by 5:30 a.m., to give myself plenty of time for an unhurried arrival at the 7:30 a.m. breakfast meeting scheduled at a downtown Portland restaurant. I had been there several times before, most recently about three months earlier. As I got ready to leave the house, already a little behind schedule, I discovered that my cell phone had not charged overnight and was now completely dead. I plugged it in to charge and left the house.
The streetcar took me to the Portland State University stop, and I had a pretty good mental image of where the restaurant was, although I couldn’t exactly remember whether it was on S.W. Fourth or Sixth Street. I looked on Sixth for a few blocks. Nothing looked familiar. I walked over to Fourth Street. It looked even less familiar. I was now late for my appointment. I had no phone to call and say I was late. I couldn’t even check the address of the restaurant.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.