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Licker4U · 2007-04-13, 07:15 AM

Good you're feeling better Jim. I haven't had any kind of cold or flu in 4-5 years (knock on wood) Maybe that's because I don't get out in public much where most infectious germs are. I sit here glued to a keyboard and only go out for cigs, booze and the occasional trip for groceries

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A local MediaCom cable service tech came to our apartment complex and called in to their office that no one was in apt. 52, our apartment, so they cancelled our cable. (He never was at our apt. and we haven't moved, he just made a mistake) Our phone is through the cable company and we have one cable box for an old non-cable-ready TV. Those two were cut off immediately from their office but the actual signal takes 7-10 days to be physically cut off so we had cable TV working on the cable ready set and the internet connection still worked. We didn't know our service was cut off because the TV and internet still worked and calls on a cell phone got us a recording that there was "trouble in the area" that they were working on. After several days of it not getting fixed, I called and got a human being that said our service was terminated. After a trip to the local cable office they figured the service tech had made a mistake and got us going again with a BIG rate reduction for our troubles. The kicker is that the telephone number we've had for seven years had already been given out to someone else and there was no way of getting it back. I don't really care too much about that but the bitch went through the ceiling!

She was ready to castrate the service tech if she could only figure out who he was. Oh well, at least our service is cheaper...

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2007-04-13, 07:15 AM	#9
Licker4U Mean people suck, nice people swallow, are you mean or nice? Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Lower Alabama-The Redneck Riviera Posts: 2,377	Good you're feeling better Jim. I haven't had any kind of cold or flu in 4-5 years (knock on wood) Maybe that's because I don't get out in public much where most infectious germs are. I sit here glued to a keyboard and only go out for cigs, booze and the occasional trip for groceries [long rant] A local MediaCom cable service tech came to our apartment complex and called in to their office that no one was in apt. 52, our apartment, so they cancelled our cable. (He never was at our apt. and we haven't moved, he just made a mistake) Our phone is through the cable company and we have one cable box for an old non-cable-ready TV. Those two were cut off immediately from their office but the actual signal takes 7-10 days to be physically cut off so we had cable TV working on the cable ready set and the internet connection still worked. We didn't know our service was cut off because the TV and internet still worked and calls on a cell phone got us a recording that there was "trouble in the area" that they were working on. After several days of it not getting fixed, I called and got a human being that said our service was terminated. After a trip to the local cable office they figured the service tech had made a mistake and got us going again with a BIG rate reduction for our troubles. The kicker is that the telephone number we've had for seven years had already been given out to someone else and there was no way of getting it back. I don't really care too much about that but the bitch went through the ceiling! She was ready to castrate the service tech if she could only figure out who he was. Oh well, at least our service is cheaper... [/long rant]