Before mobile hotspots existed, we used something called a dongle — a little USB device with a SIM card for mobile internet on your laptop.

This was right before mobile hotspots became common. My mom, who has always loved new technology, decided she wanted one. I helped her order it from our operator, 3.

A few days later she went to pick it up at their flagship store at Stureplan 4 in Stockholm.

I was working in the office when my phone rang. It was my mother. Very loudly and agitated she shouted across the store:

“Liza! They don’t have any dolme here for me!! In what name did you order it?!”

(For my international readers: “dolme” is Swedish slang for dildo.)

I almost dropped the phone. I quickly hushed her and whispered: “Mom… it’s called a DONGLE. Not a dolme.”

She got her dongle and left the store.

Incidentally, my mother is extremely prudish, so I didn’t explain what “dolme” actually means until she got home.

Needless to say, she never set foot in that store again.

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