Korean high school girls cannot defeat me.

There is a Korean girl that's been staying with us for about the past year and a half now; she's here in the States studying at an American high school (presumably to increase her chances of getting into into college here).

In any case, I don't really like her much. She's got this "me-first" attitude that totally pisses me off all the time. In any case, the past few weeks, she's been eating up our Internet bandwidth, which is incredibly annoying to me (since my job depends on having a nice Internet connection).

Last year, the Internet at our house was incredibly slow - I thought it was RR until I figured out she was running some P2P client. I told her last year that she could run the P2P client once in a while as long as she capped the upstream. She acquiesced, and I thought that was the end of that.

Until last week. The Internet became unbearably slow. So I asked her if she was doing any P2P stuff again - I could hear the hesitation in her voice (as if she could lie to me) before she admitted that, yes, she was sharing files. I told her to cap the upstream, and she agreed. The Internet got better for a little while... and then a few hours later the Internet became unbearably slow.

This is the type of behaviour I'm talking about. She thinks she can get away with pulling off these little stunts, and it absolutely irks me. If I ever have kids, and they try pulling stunts like this, they will get a ass-whooping.

My Internet has been getting slow again tonight. So I did what anybody in my position would do - I logged into my router and banned her MAC address so her Internet would stop working. The moment I did this, my Internet became blazing fast again. It was so nice.

After five minutes, I unbanned her (see? I'm a nice guy. Really!). Ten minutes later, Internet slow again.

So I banned her again. I've banned her at least four times tonight for five minute intervals.

I feel like I'm running one of those psychological experiments with rats where the scientists shock the rodents if they do something wrong. Except this girl is not learning. Everytime you start upstreaming files, little girl, your Internet will stop working.

Let's see how long this experiment has to last.

"What? Your Internet stopped working? Yeah, mine too. It's probably our Internet provider!" (As I quickly alt+tab out of the flashing IM screens).

Tomorrow: My exciting eBay tale on how, after 106 unique transactions, I finally got my first negative feedback :(