Student IT here. Quick background (this will be relevant later in the story: I'm in Southern California) Yesterday, I was trying to set up wireless internet at a friend's house. The wired connection had been working, but obviously it's kind of painful when you have multiple people in a room.

Friend: You're IT, right? We're having people over tomorrow for studying, can you help us get this router set up?

Me: Yeah sure, should be a quick fix.

Friend proceeds to hand me a router - relatively old Linksys, but looks usable. Setup takes 5 minutes and everyone connects fine...

Of course, I wouldn't be posting this if it ended there. Less than a minute after setup, the internet goes down. For everyone.

Friend2: Hey, the internet's not working

Friend3: Yeah, my phone's connected but I can't get online.

Friend: What did you do! The internet is down for everyone and it's YOUR fault!

Me: I didn't do anything, I swear!

Friend: Just stop touching it man, you broke it. $UniversityName IT sucks!

I'm still running router diagnostics, but notice something: even the direct line to the modem no longer works. Weird; it was working fine earlier...

Remember how I said I'm in Southern California? We're experiencing our first "storm" (cause more than an inch of rain is a storm here, I guess), so on a hunch, I call $MajorTeleco ... and it turns out there's an outage in our area due to the rain. My friends apologize and we all have a laugh at the perfect timing of the outage.