Charged Up

Here's the conversation:  

"Do you know what this cord is for?"

"Yeah, it came with [here he might fill in the blank, or just look blank.  Either way . . .]  Don't throw it away." 

Cords come in white (more likely to go with Apple products) and black (everything else).  The ones we really use are plugged into outlets all over the house, where they just live until someone plugs a gadget into them.  But every year in September I find extra cords scattered in drawers around the house.  There's a box of them upstairs in the office.  There are baggies of them in the kitchen drawers.  My only strategy so far is to try to keep them in containers.  Perhaps then they won't breed.