A Lesson in Boundaries

I ran into my elderly neighbor near the entrance to our building. She asked me to look at what was wrong with her computer — she couldn’t open any websites. So I went and saw that the icon showed no signal… to my Wi-Fi.

3 days earlier, I had replaced my router and changed the password. I recalled that 8 years earlier, she couldn’t get in touch with her son in China and asked me to help her because she didn’t have internet. I installed Skype for her, got connected via my router, and forgot to disconnect it. So I told her that she had been using my internet all this time.
— What should I do now?
— Get your own internet. It’s about $4 a month. I think you can probably handle that.
And she replied:
— Make it the way it used to be. You have internet. Why don’t you share?
Of course, I said no to her. Of course, I didn’t hear any thanks from her for using my internet for 8 years. Of course, she doesn’t say hello to me anymore. Of course, I continue to trust people.

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