after years of threatening to cancel our cable/internet connection, it finally happened yesterday. the cost of cable/internet is pretty high these days but i had been getting a sweet deal for years. years ago sonny found out about a special for students that was about half price so i put the service in his name for a few years and then after he graduated i put the service in my daughters name and that lasted a little over a year. when the student program was canceled i kept threatening to quit the service and they kept giving me 6 month promotions. the last promotion they gave me was $40 month for cable/internet which was a real sweet deal. after that promotion expired the bill skyrocketed to $137 month. quite the increase.
my sweetheart has been negotiating with the competing phone/cable/internet company for a few months and she was anxious to make the switch so yesterday it happened. the rep booked a 2 hour installation that turned into 7 hours of hell. ruby had to be locked in her crate for the whole 7 hours so she was probably suffered the greatest but i sure got a headache too. they ended up having to run a new line into the house. it took the guy 4 hours to figure out we needed the new line and then he had to call his manager to come out and approve the new line as well as assist in the installation. after 7 hours they got me connected and guess what, they fucked up the order and i didn't get any of the channels i wanted. it took a call to customer service in montreal to order the changes that couldn't take effect until the next day. after that call was made i decided to make another change and spoke to a different rep who said she would put in the order for me. when i got up this morning there had been no changes made so i called back. finally, i now have my fucking channels. we got a pretty good deal, $65 month for cable/internet/land line for 1 year then it goes way up for 2 years. my sweetheart signed up for a 3 year contract.
i wouldn't have signed up for the 3 year contract but it's in her name and she's paying so as i'm fond of saying, jimmy crack corn.
to celebrate i went and bought this sweet little table to hold the remote controls.
R.I.P. jack bruce
i love you sons of bitches.
17 comments:
Damn, that's a lot of remotes! Are any of them souvenirs from an old device?
they're all in use. i never met a remote i didn't like.
Geez, I only have three remotes.
My cable internut is about 45 bucks a month, it creeps up a bit every year. I'm limited on choices here so I stick with it. They offer other packages but only for a limited time and then they rocket up and I don't like to always be changing plans.
I don't have a landline anymore, fuck that, a cell phone is cooler and cheaper on the plan I use.
Jack Bruce looks just like Dave, a disturbed man that comes to social hour.
Cable/internet -what a rat race, huh?
Nice video, r.i.p Jack!
king - i wouldn't want a cell phone for all the tea in china. i don't have to answer any nuisance calls and don't have to worry about the phone ringing when i'm out of the house.
dixie - cable/internet; can't live with it. can't live without it.
You don't have to answer nuisance calls on a cell phone, not that I get many on it, just answer calls from folks in you address book, it has caller id built in.
I used it on my trip to Texas, no long distance charges was cool and I talked to Terry everyday.
I was ready to cut the satellite cable down to bare bones, but Shelly wanted "channels for the grandchildren".
Talk about some idiotic shows, what a waste of money, I say let them watch infomercials!
No, there are tons of things for them to watch without paying for extra channels, but not according to the Mrs. so I just go with the philosophy "Happy wife, happy life."
MAKING A COME BACK????
Not that we can always trust what is in the news.
I think Pilgrim's nuisance calls would come from people in his contacts list...
king - thims hit the nail on the head about contacts. those are the calls that drive me nuts. i breathe a sigh of relief when i answer the phone and it's a telemarketer.
tex - yes, i think i could easily cut the cord on cable but my missus has a few programs she likes to watch. i'd be happy spending the rest of my life watching deadwood and the x files.
Buy the f'in dip!
Never had cable or sattitte
Road game win!
thims - french onion?
dora - a good way to go.
leslie - it looks like drew is back.
Who is Drew? Oh hell, nevermind, I don't give a shit.
Enjoy it, BP. Hopefully soon the cable/Internet racket will be busted and we will not have to pay so much and just get the channels we want.
If those fucking monkeys want me to watch their stuff they are pretty much going to have to give it to me for free.
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