Today, I told my son if he wanted the new internet password he had to clean his room. I then caught him disconnecting my laptop from the internet. Turns out he changed the password months ago and now if I want the new password he wants £50. I ended up paying. I'm actually proud of the sneaky sod. FML
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Today, my son tried extort me into turning the WiFi back on by hiding my purse. He was mad because he'd lost access for being disrespectful. FML
Today, I told my son that if he doesn’t sort his life out, I’d change the Wi-Fi password. His answer, "Good luck old man, I changed it months ago and unless you leave me alone, I’ll disconnect your living room TV." I’m disabled so I need the TV to cope with being depressed. FML
Today, I threatened my kids I’d turn off their WiFi unless they did their chores, so my eldest chimed in, "Please, we changed the WiFi password months ago in case you tried to threaten us like this," then turned off my WiFi, which I need to work from home. I had to beg a 12-year-old to let me work. FML
Today, my son got an email saying he could win an iPad if he just entered his credit card number. He asked for mine, telling me that it was so he could buy some school supplies online, so I gave it to him. The internet just conned a credit card number out of a 17-year-old nitwit. And me. FML
Today, I tried to get my son off of the couch by turning off the wifi. Afterward, I went to watch tv. Turns out he got me back by turning off the cable. FML
Today, my manager asked me for the password to my Internet so she could Skype family since she can't pay her bill. This is the same woman who just a week ago tried to evict me because my rent was an hour late. Trying to be the bigger person, I gave her the password. She changed my password. FML
Today, I found out that whenever I send my son to his room, he goes on his iPod and buys the most expensive apps he can find. So far I've been charged $600. FML
Today, I got a computer. When I opened it, I found out that my dad had made himself the administrator. He made it so everything shut off after 11 o'clock, and made it so I couldn't download anything without his password. FML
Today, my cute co-worker asked if he could use my computer. I told him my password and went to the bathroom. When I came back he said he'd finished. I tried to log in, but my password wouldn't work. I then noticed a Post-it note on the desk saying, "Stop stalking me and I'll change the password back." FML
Today, I found my brother tampering with my laptop. He had changed the entire settings, in ways I don't even know how to fix. I finally had to get my mom to threaten him to change it back to its original setting. I'm 15. He's six and can barely get dressed by himself. FML
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JasonThorn 23
And it never occurred to simply hard-reset the router and reconfigure the wifi because...?
mike3775 39
If my kid tried that with me, a quick call to the cable company cutting off the internet would occur, and also a deactivation of the cell phone as well.
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ohsnapword 21
I hope your son can hear me applauding.
BurnInDemonFire 39
And you didn't consider trading one password for the other because...?
Varieus 30
I could be wrong because of how the FML is worded. But it sounds like the new internet password they thought they had wasn't the password due to the son changing it months ago, so they couldn't trade a password for a password due to them not actually having the one they thought they had in the first place.
JasonThorn 23
And it never occurred to simply hard-reset the router and reconfigure the wifi because...?
TumblrweedPasses 11
So your kid runs the roost in your house??
ViviMage 40
I hear it all the time at the cable company. The kids rule the roost. They decide the channels and if something happens (plan change, channel migration, outages, bill wasn't paid) the kids raise hell. And I've been in the phone with a kid screaming like a possessed banshee because the parents can't get Paw Patrol to work.
mike3775 39
If my kid tried that with me, a quick call to the cable company cutting off the internet would occur, and also a deactivation of the cell phone as well.
MATTY2512 15
People say that but we all know they want the Internet for themselves aswell so that’s a shitty plan.
WHSKitty4ever 23
My mom used to threaten that but never did
no0ne0890 29
my mom threatened me with it too...and she actually did it.she said if I was gonna be an asshole then i would be a working asshole who trades one service for another. so a contract was formed that if she were to reinstate internet services I would have to keep up with my chores and fix stuff on the tech side.
mike3775 39
I’ve done it. My oldest called the bluff and I called. Had it temporarily disabled and canned his cell line since it was on my plan. When I turned the cable back on, the modem and router was relocated to my bedroom which is locked.
RichardPencil 32
Did you also clean his room?
Phillycheeze 20
You didn't beat him why?
SirEnigM0nk 22
Probably won't do jack, except get OP charged with assault.
ViviMage 40
I work for a cable company. I can walk you through fixing that. And putting a toothpick in the pinhole reset in the back of the router for 10 seconds is cheaper! You can also pause his internet connection, but again, all he needs is a toothpick!
ViviMage 40
What you need is a locked hard acrylic box to put your router in, with holes cut out for the power and the WAN (if it's not an all in one unit) and the antennas on the router, and make sure there is no way to access the reset pinhole! If you use the LAN ports make sure it's not an Ethernet port near the reset. ....and he needs a big paper clip. Either that or you need a lockable cabinet for the router to live in, but if it's in a cabinet that kills some of your WiFi. I got it! A belt. You need a belt!
mike3775 39
Or putting it in a locked room
weaboo 12
Yeah well some of us are too broke to leave a whole room in the house always locked
ViviMage 40
I work for a cable provider, not a house planning committee to build lockable offices or closets in houses. All I am trained in is suggestions. And I know the router is basically "toothpick war" to reset it, change the settings, until the other guy's toothpick is used. The only way to win this is to lock the router in an inaccessible place with a password on its own login so admin/password won't work remotely, and if needed tell the cable company not to reset any passwords over the phone. I also think if you can't pay for a babysitter either don't have children because they are too expensive to care for, or don't bring them to events/dinners out. Eat home or carry out on the nights you can't get a sitter or till they can behave. I can't exactly tell every mom and dad with a screaming brat how to run their life. And the moms with screamers usually are trying to help calm the kids anyway!
Jr90 0
Now you change it, lock up the router and tell him it'll be 100 and cleaning his room.