The longest delivery I ever endured makes for a funny anecdote now, too. 2020. Lockdowns. Everybody needs Internet. My neighbor was a nice lady who didn't have

The longest delivery I ever endured makes for a funny anecdote now, too. 2020. Lockdowns. Everybody needs Internet. My neighbor was a nice lady who didn't have much tech knowledge. She was borrowing WiFi from a guy upstairs. Her computer was a hand-me-down from a former neighbor too. It was an HP all-in-one and the WiFi controller burned out. So she made it my mission to restore her connectivity. I knew we'd need a dongle, and so I shopped for them on Amazon and Newegg while she looked on. For some dumb, stupid, unfathomable reason, I decided that the best choice was for about $12, direct from China. We plunked down our money and placed our order, and began to wait. I communicated the situation to my online friends, and there's a guy who always sends me his secondhand, usable electronics. He had a dongle handy and so he mailed it to me. It was like September 2020. The Chinese dongle from Amazon stalled out. I think it had shipped from the vendor and it was just sitting on a ship in port somewhere, for ages. It didn't budge for weeks, months. The other dongle arrived from my friend in Utah and I installed it, and my neighbor was happy again. But we still hadn't received our treat from China. And then one day it dislodged itself, the ship made it across the Pacific, and the thing finally landed in my mailbox. So I installed that dongle too, and my neighbor had dual-channel WiFi. Total overkill, totally unnecessary, but why not, eh? Thanks, COVID-19!