It amazes me at how much we are all dependant on the internet. The internet goes offline and work at my office seems to come to a halt. Even the simplest things still require you to be "online".
We run tests and see how fast the speed is, eventhough the tests don't acutally fix it, they only tell us what we already knew - that there is a problem. And you call the internet provider and they say there is a 'team of engineers diligently working on the problem" a.k.a. they have no clue what the problem is.