The Great Furry Conspiracy
January 25th, 2008My internets have been all wonky. This sucks. Cable stuff costs too much to not work right.
So I wait about a week to see if the tubes will magically fix themselves, and they don’t. This is mostly because I hate calling Comcast. HATE.
I’m not sure if I wrote about the last time I called them and got into a raging phone battle over what I’ve decided to call the Comcast Retard Tax, where they’re not sure if I’m so dum I might have the cable man come out because my TV is unplugged. But yeah, that happened.
This is what happened this time. The phone guy was nice, tho. For once. I should go down to the Wawa and buy me a lottery scratcher, cause that’s some kind of crazy luck. Because mostly they are dicks. But anyway–
Me: Hi. The internets are broke. Cause they go on and off over and over. And it is the suxxor, thnx.
Guy: *Testing stuff over the phone*
Me: I think it’s the modem, cause the TV is working fine.
Guy: Well, it’s testing in the RED ZONE OMG!!! Let my use my leet skillz to reboot it.
Me: Kay
Guy: Ok, it’s still not working. I’ll send a guy, cause it could be the lines.
Me: But the TV? Is working?
Guy: Oh, well, you know– Squirrels could have chewed on them on the higher frequencies. That would only affect the interwebs.
Me: *wtf squirrels?* Ok. It’s 18 degrees, but yeah, sure. Send the squirrel police.
And then the man came and gave me a new modem. No squirrels were arrested or implicated in any way.
-Ali
February 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Oh the cable company… This made me laugh while I should be working. I had a similar experience the other day. Actually it was entirely different and didn’t involve my internets not working or squirrels, however it did involve talking to customer service for timewarner cable.