Dad and the Router

As you know I've had difficulties using the internet these past few days- and I was on the verge of calling our ISP except I hate talking to people over the phone. Then later Dad asks me- rather- interrogates me on whether I've breached our download limit, thus causing internet speeds to drop. I thought we just got charged extra, didn't know our speeds would drop. Anyway, the answer is no, I haven't downloaded anything massive. With the plan we have the family can use a gig a day and still have heaps to spare at the end of the month. Since Dad only uses internet to read news- yeah, it was highly unlikely that we were capped.

But then he bitches to me about how speeds are slow and blah blah blah (I don't really remember what he said). So I was all like "okay call the ISP then". He then procrastinates on doing so, and I don't think he likes calling people either. Then I thought, hmmm, what would a normal person try first, before calling the ISP? I read the troubleshooting thing on Chrome, and it said something along the lines of RESTART YOUR ROUTER.

That moment when you realise, "huh, I'm actually retarded."

Excited, I rush out of my room--- and I stop half way because I realise the router is at the front of the house, where Dad's inconvenient friend now lives. I ask Dad whether his friend is home and still asleep, and luckily for me he was out. Then I was all like, "HEY DAD DAD DAD WE SHOULD RESTART THE ROUTER. IT'S A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY SINCE YOUR FRIEND ISN'T SLEEPING OR SOMETHING."
And I was sorta expecting a response like "oh yeeeeah we should restart the router!", except I forgot that I was talking to Dad.
"Router? Why would it be the router?"
Then I tell him the router has magical powers which gives us internet access, so when our internet doesn't work properly we should try the router.
"I think we should just contact [our ISP]"
So I spend the next 5 minutes telling him why we should try everything we can try before we contact the ISP. God knows when they'll respond, and if we haven't even tried restarting the router before contacting them, they'll probably rage.

Reluctantly, Dad trudges off to his friend's room to restart the router. I wait 10min for him to come out and tell me that he couldn't find a restart button, so he had to cut the power supply and reconnect it. Well, never mind that, because whoooo my internet is working like it was before. So I tell Dad that everything is okay now, and I sort of expected a "oh you're so great I never thought about restarting the router forgive me for stubbornly wanting to call the ISP before I tried your suggestions".

But of course, it was Dad.

"Huh, isn't that peculiar? Why would restarting the router work?"