The Terminal Part 2

 The Terminal story continues....

Techie Dude finally verifies that I am, in fact, me by calling the other office line and I answer.  That's it.

We then spend 45 minutes trying to reprogram The Terminal to latch onto my work Wifi, with Techie Dude telling me to punch certain buttons and me trying not to sigh quite so loudly into the phone (I loathe all things technological that falls to me to attempt to fix.  I hereby abdicate this part of my job description.)

The Terminal doesn't like this.  It decides to spontaneously reboot 3 times.

Finally, we get to the last of the last of the information I need to input into The Terminal: the Wifi password.  I spend several minutes typing the letters and numbers from the keypad like I used to text on my old cellphone...punch the 1 one time for a, two times for b, 3 times for c, and simultaneously punch four buttons while humming the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandee to make it a capital letter. Our password has a '$' in it.  This is apparently a problem.

I get put on hold.

To sum up, The Terminal is not equipped to have the '$.'  I now have only one option - I must change the router password and every computer terminal and device using the Wifi to a password with no '$'s in it.  Instead, I thank everyone for their time and hang up.

I then take a 5 minute walk to get some fresh air.

After venting to M about the situation, he texts the one thing that I laughed at all day:

"We all know that $ is too hard for money machines. - - "

Yes, yes we do.