I boarded a plane today thinking that my MacBook Pro battery was fully charged. Much to my chagrin when I turned on the machine it said it had 10 minutes left. This is the third Mac battery I have had for this machine. They suck. Green my ass. They don’t hold the charge they are supposed to for anywhere near as long as they should. Anyway I digress I had so much in my head. I needed to get it down. I needed to work. I needed battery life. There were no outlets so. I asked the flight attendant to make an announcement that I would rent someone’s macbook pro battery for the 2 hour flight for $20. She made the announcement and asked people to ring their flight attendant button I they were interested. Within 10 seconds of her announcement I heard three dings. Three different people were anxious to rent me their battery. The flight attendant handled who the winner was. I considered just for a second then offering the deal to the lowest bidder, anyone willing to rent it for $15 J but was just happy to get a fully juiced battery. I am writing this on the plane using the rented battery. Just got a solid amount of work done for 90 minutes and it cost me 20 bucks. All in all a great deal for everyone Should there be hyper local ebay, planebay, for such things? Rent a movie you have someone else wants to see. Rent an ipod full of music. Rent someone’s headphones…wacky but….