I was sitting at work today, answering emails when all of a sudden the music stopped. “Alexa, play Taylor Swift Midnights.” My Amazon Echo starts blinking red. No music. I guess I’ll just “Shake it Off” (I couldn’t resist!).

In my silent office (me being alone with my thoughts is a scary proposition) I now discover that I cannot send or receive emails and Google Chrome will no longer load any pages.

This is at approximately 3:15pm.

Am I going to let the lack of WIFI stop me? No way! I connect my computer to the hotspot on my phone and bam! I get to work again. Slowly. For about 5 minutes. Then… my phone’s 5G stops working.

Defeated, I pack up and head to the grocery store quickly before squeezing in a PTO meeting at Pawtucketville Elementary. (Sidenote: I was connected at Market Basket. Yes, sometimes I check social media while shopping. Don’t judge – the checkout line was slow…. much like the internet – the irony!)

When I got home, to my dismay, WIFI and 5G still weren’t working. I checked several times. Landry (6 years old) asked me what I was doing. My response, “The internet isn’t working.” Landry’s response, “Then why do you keep checking.” Touché little guy.

Throughout the next several hours, despite no connection, my phone dings taunting me with push notifications of tweets that have been retweeted, Facebook messages that I cannot open and emails that present nothing when I click on them.

And it doesn’t stop there. I have a flyer I need to make on Canva (an online program) and a Facebook Fundraiser I need to start for the Merrimack Valley Food Bank.

Oh well… I guess I’ll just have to put my feet up and watch something on Netflix. Oh wait… I can’t. There’s no internet. (How good does cutting the cord feel now?)

I get a text and the joking about how I currently don’t have social media begins. I try to respond with a GIF but can’t even search for one. Wow, the internet possesses even more power than I realized.

Hmmm…. What to do now? Feel thankful that I get to connect with myself due to my lack of connectivity? I wish I was one of those people, but I guess I’ll go to bed.

But wait… it’s 9:03pm and guess what? 5G is working! I’m back baby!