Tenant changes Wi-Fi password to block freeloading neighbor, he guesses the new one and offers to split the bill: '[It was your dog’s name with 123 at the end]'

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  • A man at home wondering why his WiFi connection is so slow.
  • My neighbor explained why he was using my Wi-Fi and somehow made it worse

    So after I posted this, a lot of people told me to just let it go since I already changed the password. That was the plan.
  • I was fully prepared to just avoid eye contact in the hallway for the next year and move on with my life. Then Tuesday happened.
  • I got home from work kinda late, and our building parking lot was almost full except for my spot. Daniel was outside near the stairs carrying groceries, and when he saw me pull in he did this awkward half-wave thing.
  • I waved back because I'm not trying to start apartment beef over Wi-Fi.
  • Anyway, I go upstairs, unlock my door, and immediately hear my TV turn on by itself in the living room. Not loudly either. Just enough that I heard the startup sound.
  • At first I thought maybe I sat on the remote in my bag or something, but when I walked in, my PS5 was on too. That freaked me out a little because I KNOW I turned everything off before work.
  • Then I noticed my Wi-Fi wasn't working again. Not slow this time. Completely de d.
  • I reset the router, waited a minute, and when it came back online there was ONE unknown device connected. No joke, the device name was literally: "please"
  • I actually laughed because it caught me so off guard. Like I know I should've been annoyed, but something about it was so stupid that I just stood there laughing in my kitchen.
  • An unknown electronic device successfully connected to a locked WiFi network.
  • Then, before I could block it, the device disappeared. About ten minutes later there was a knock at my door.
  • And for some reason I already knew it was Daniel. He's standing there holding another Costco muffin, except this time he also has a folded piece of paper in his hand.
  • He goes: "Okay before you say anything, I can explain."
  • A man smiling while enjoying free internet access at home.
  • Apparently when he moved in, the previous tenant gave him MY Wi-Fi password by mistake because they were friends or something. He said he thought it was the building Wi-Fi at first since the network name was literally just "NETGEAR84."
  • According to him, he only realized it was mine after I changed the password the first time. Which honestly would've made sense... if he had stopped using it after that.
  • But no. This man admitted he somehow guessed my NEW password because it was my dog's name with "123" at the end.
  • I didn't even know whether to be offended or embarrassed at that point. Then he said the reason he knocked was because he felt bad and wanted to offer to split the internet bill since he'd "accidentally been using it for months."
  • Which would've almost sounded reasonable if he hadn't literally hacked back into it like a cartoon character.
  • I asked how he even got the second password and he goes: "You posted your dog on Instagram." I genuinely had no response.

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