Cord Cutters
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I'm heading to Florida for a week to care for my father (had a stroke like 6 years ago) while his caregiver (family friend) is away (her daughter is getting married).
Therefore, I'll be getting 7-8 hours a day of game shows the entire time I'm down there. Most of them re-runs from the 70s. He watches a dedicated game show channel until the 6 o'clock news. It will be a slight variation from the usual "watch the 2nd half of action movies for 7-8 hours -- until the 6 o'clock news" at the in-laws house.
Therefore, I'll be getting 7-8 hours a day of game shows the entire time I'm down there. Most of them re-runs from the 70s. He watches a dedicated game show channel until the 6 o'clock news. It will be a slight variation from the usual "watch the 2nd half of action movies for 7-8 hours -- until the 6 o'clock news" at the in-laws house.
Where in FL? If you're anywhere Ft Lauderdale we should meet. That would be cool.
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Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Koop actually lives with the Golden Girls.
The other part of changing-over to fiber optic was canceling our Spectrum cable service. Needless to say, they don't make it easy. There's no way to cancel online, so you have to call. Then you go through all the menus. When you finally get to someone who is specifically there to talk about canceling, they just won't do it. Mrs. Scotch, who has decades of experience with everything from handling irate health insurance customers to foreclosing on mortgage holders and repossessing cars, knows how to deal with these shithead phone people. She kept saying "I just want to cancel the service; can you give me a confirmation?". But they have a script, "let's talk about the equipment you have, and the devices you have, and how you use your internet, and what the alternative is like".
She kept making it clear that we have already been wired with fiber, we are going to keep that plan, and we need to cancel the Spectrum service. Over and over again, he said "I'm working on it", and she kept saying "just give me a confirmation when you have it". He would say "okay, it'll be a few minutes". This went on for a while, and then he went away for 5 to 10 minutes. He came back and started to say "okay, here are the options I have for you". Mrs. Scotch lost it. She said he was not doing what she asked, and she was going to call and get someone who will cancel the service, and also call the Public Utility Commissioner.
She called back, and this time, after making things clear, there was a 15 minute wait, and then the guy came back with a cancellation confirmation. They really try to make it near-impossible. Returning the equipment was much easier. The UPS store scans the bar-codes on the stuff, takes it, and gives me a receipt.
I tried to change my Comcast internet to a lesser cost and they put me through similar. I went online it said call. I called she said I had to go online. I was having her guide me through their website to get to the spot where I could have a lesser plan but we were on the phone so long I had to leave my house, so I never got there.