Finding a replacement laptop battery, especially on extremely short notice, can be a task that could end up haunting you for the rest of your life. The prospect of being stuck in a library with the need to complete an essay for school at three in the morning is terrifying enough, but to add the idea of having a low battery gradually run out adds a dose of lunacy to the maddening situation.

Luckily, you are well-informed when it comes to laptop replacement batteries and you happen to have one in your backpack. The day is saved. But if you aren’t so lucky and you’re like the rest of us, you likely have no idea what you are looking for in terms of a replacement laptop battery. With your laptop battery dead, you find yourself wandering the streets shouting at the top of your lungs in the middle of the night.

The police arrive on the scene to find your clutching your laptop while repeating the word “battery” under your breath as they put you in the back of the squad car and take you to jail for the night to “cool off”. Trust me, I’ve been there. There is another way, luckily. Batteries are remarkably easy to find if you have the right information and the right locations to shop at.

Many technology stores keep boxes filled with these lovely laptop batteries in secret back room because they know that people like us are looking for them with such a maddening desire that they are often overwrought with the uncontrollable lunacy of someone who’s laptop battery is running seriously, gravely, fatally low. As much as technology stores want to make money from selling a replacement laptop battery, they have to keep those workers alive too.

Inevitably, however, you will have found a way to track the laptop batteries and you are now staring at a wall of batteries with a look on your face that closely resembles confusion but is likely closer to fear. Eyes wide, you stare up at the boxes and point to one of them with a mumble of a word that is neither English or any other earthly language.

Thankfully, the assistant knows what you are inquiring at and remarks with soothing words that inform you of the life of your laptop battery, the power of your laptop battery, and anything else that is important to know about your laptop battery. You never want to leave the store not knowing what you have purchased, so ensure you get all of the details before signing off on that purchase.