Such a Day

Hello,

Yesterday, late they turned on the internet connection for us, but we could not get the signal from the two phone jacks. We were not surprised as this house is quite old and we have no idea when anyone last used a phone line here on the second floor. Today, Leroy checked out all the possibilities of wire outside the house, searched out a phone number, and waited until the office was open. The person he spoke with asked many questions, perhaps making sure that all avenues had been tried before ordering a crew to come to the site. She informed Leroy that if the problem were outside the house it would be taken care of, however, if it were in the house it there would be a fee of $85. We had paid a monthly $5 to take care of such an eventuality. According to this person it did not show up on the order that we had paid that amount even though we both thought it had happened. Then Leroy twiddled his thumbs, looked for another phone number, muttered under his breath, sighed, moaned, and phoned the person we had spoken with on Saturday. Unfortunately they did not answer.

By this time Leroy was all bent out of shape and I was thinking we would have been better off if we had never tried to have a home phone and no one would have been the wiser that we had this internet connection.

Leroy worked this afternoon. He then told me that the person had called him back. She was not working today but remembered adding that to our bill, maybe because, on Saturday Leroy had not seen it there and called her after we had gotten home. At that time too she said it was there. All of this fussing over something that is not so important in the whole scheme of life. It is really a question of money and time expended.

Paula