Technology (and Google specifically) is amazing

I am at this moment in a parking lot outside Best Buy in Mountain View, using the free wireless that Google provides to its home city (i.e. Mountain View). Alan and I are trying to fix my car (the trunk light permanently stays on - we've taken out the entire locking mechanism and figured out that something in the trunk got bent so that the locking mechanism doesn't shut all the way) and the last he was here, he was saying we need to have a hammer to try and knock the bent part back into place. So I pulled up my laptop, did a quick search and found a hardware store just down the road from where we are. Possibly within walking distance. Currently waiting for Alan to return from the hardware store, and in the meantime I am marveling at the fact that I have access to free wireless internet (which works pretty well!) from the middle of a suburban carpark.