Wifi Queen

My sweet boyfriend got me an Amazon Kindle, an electronic reading device that allows you to go online using wifi or 3G internet and buy books, for our birthaversary. (Our birthdays and anniversary are all within three weeks of each other so we get one present for our birthday and anniversary, thus the birthaversary.)The Kindle I have is the wifi addition because my boyfriend figured as long as I’m in the United States I should be able to pick up a wifi connection, after all who doesn’t have the internet??! I do not have internet. Neither does anyone else in this town, apparently.

You may wonder, “How can a person technologically savvy enough to have an electronic reading device not have the internet?” Well I work a lot and I can never get everything done. If I had the internet at my house I would probably work 24/7 and trust me, I do not get paid enough to sit on the toilet at my house while I type emails to people who think I’m too young for this job. So for the sake of having SOME SORT of personal life, I have decided not to have internet. I do have internet on my phone for light Facebook browsing, but for the most part, once I leave work that is it for my outside connection to the world other than a phone call… How barbaric is my life?

Anyway, I don’t have internet and my boyfriend buys me a Kindle, so today at work I see if our office has wifi. It doesn’t. We have Ethernet, I’m sure to keep all the locals, who would want to hack our top secret information, from using it. So I Google searched where to find a wifi connection in this town. Apparently Dairy Queen is the place to be. Dairy Queen is the only place in this town where you can get a FREE wifi connection after 5:00pm.

Now, let me tell you something about this town and Dairy Queen, it’s the HUB for bumpkin-ville. After 5:00pm until the time it closes; Dairy Queen is the most happening place in town, aside from Wal-Mart. It isn’t the only place to eat, but it is the only place that serves any kind of decent treat after 5:00pm.

Now you might ask, “Why not go to the public library?” Because I kid you not… this town does not have one. It hasn’t had one for over a year. No wifi connection for the citizen of this fair town.

So I sat in the parking of Dairy Queen, while all the busy bees pulled in and out of the town hive with their delicious treats, register my Kindle and ordered my first electronic book. And NO, I did not get a blizzard.