Imagine this, you go for a short vacation, everything is going well, and you're in a nice calm suburban area with stable electricity, a good amount of food, and you have enough time to do whatever you want to. Perfect scenario right? No, it is not a perfect scenario, why? Because the internet connection is terrible.
I have managed myself through annoying situations like unstable electricity, or no internet at all, but this one was different, this one was worse. If there's no internet connection at all then at least I know that there's no internet and I'm cut off, but with this one, there's an internet connection, you can see messages coming in, but for your messages to send you have to wait a painfully long amount of time, refresh the internet by switching airplane mode on and off like five times, and then when it delivers the conversation you're having has probably taken a different direction, and on and on. Let me not even get started on when it is time to load videos and images. It was a painful experience, I literally had headaches at times just out of sheer frustration. Each time I pulled out my phone I saw messages I wanted to reply to, and then I'd remember the stress of slow internet and then I'd put my phone down.
At some point, I had to start checking all the corners of the house to see if there was any place where the internet was even slightly better, there wasn't. But then eventually I realized that down the street the network was better. I didn't know anyone there, and there wasn't any spot to sit, but I was desperate at times, so, whenever I wanted good internet I'd have to take a walk down the street. Back and forth for minutes to hours at a time. Whenever I wanted to trade or talk to loved ones or friends, I'd simply stretch my legs and walk back and forth for as long as I could, till my back ached. Then of course my PC was almost rendered useless. To use it I had to wake up at midnight when the internet connection was only slightly less mediocre.
It was a learning experience though, as I did some other things like reading, trying some experimental cooking, and doing some exercise. It also made me realize that whenever I am getting an apartment, no matter how beautiful and nice everything is, I must always check the internet connection in every single nuke and cranny of the house. I can't imagine having to live like that every day. I'd end up leaving the house within a week (which I did in this case). This experience made me realize that this is my peeviest digital pet peeve (if such a word exists). Can you relate?
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