Who knew sharing your Wi-Fi with an entitled neighbor could bring so much trouble? A Reddit story on r/EntitledPeople, shared by user going by eggwhit_e, had everyone on the Internet in stitches.
Despite being a student seeking a part-time job and drowning in debt, they did the neighborly thing of throwing a housewarming party for everyone on the floor after moving into a new apartment. One of the guests, a neighbor mentioned as "K," who is between fifty and sixty years old, arrived with a very specific request.
"K" requested the Wi-Fi password so he could use the network "while at the house," even though his own unit was directly next door and his Wi-Fi signal should have been strong enough. The poster gave the password at the time, thinking it wasn't a big problem.
When the redittor changed the password a week later, "K" was at their door in a matter of hours. He said that he was unable to connect because the Wi-Fi was "down".
That's when things went from awkward to outright entitled. The poster told "K" to stop using the Wi-Fi without consent. In response, K declared that "sharing your wifi is part of being good neighbours."
The poster's landlord called them shortly after, stating that a noise complaint had been made against them, even though they lived alone and had no guests. They suspected "K" right away, as the timing was too hard to miss.
"K" returned the very following day, this time with a prepared speech. They allegedly said, "Everyone shares their wifi, you're selfish, and everyone here hates you." The claim was swiftly proven false, as all of his neighbors had their Wi-Fi on private, and there was no such "unwritten rule" about sharing internet connections with neighbors.
Even that did not stop the neighbor from making demands. The poster had to install a doorbell camera just to guard his router.
User Future_Beings advised the poster to take quick action, "Send the landlord the footage of him huffing and puffing at your door… Landlords hate drama, but they hate liability more. If he's harassing you, he's the disruptive one."
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Cobra93360, a user, recommended completely masking the Wi-Fi's SSID to prevent K from seeing it. User SecretOscarOG proposed flipping the roles and asking K for his own Wi-Fi password, even though they were fully aware that he didn't have one.
The poster eventually followed Reddit's advice and pulled off a hilarious silent prank. After following up with the landlord on the fake noise complaint, they changed the name of their Wi-Fi network to "Not_K's_Wifi."
The internet's verdict seems resourceful, petty, and totally justified.
The road to entitlement is paved with little requests that never stay small.
