Stealing
Comcast is screwing me. And they know they can screw me, stupid CABLE MONOPOLY.
I still don’t have Internet connection (or TV or phone). It’s practically like living in the 40’s with only the radio to keep me company. If you’re wondering how I’m posting now, it’s because I’m STEALING my neighbor’s Internet connection. Hats off to my new neighbors!
So anyway, I’m just checking in to say I miss you! Did you lose weight?! Wow you ALL look SO pretty.
How about a quick story about the realtor whose head I ate?
Okay. Here’s the thing. We found out the day before closing that we were responsible for purchasing and installing a mailbox. This, despite our attempt to find out about the who’s and why’s of mailbox installation for the previous two weeks. And not just any old mailbox, NO! The mailbox approved by our homeowner’s association that has to be ordered from a specific person who was ON VACATION. I was INCREDIBLY irritated to find out this information the day before closing AND! the day I had our mail forwarded to the new address.
GAH! I’m getting mad just writing this.
Lest you think that I’m just a whiny, spoiled housewife who needs a real problem, let me ’splain. I feel that the post office is a place designed by the devil himself to make mommies of small children feel like hurling themselves into oncoming mail trucks. It’s nearly impossible to get inside the post office carrying two small kids and your packages and go through two sets of doors then wait in line FOREVER and a day then fumble to pay, while holding two small kids then get back outside attempting to go through two sets of doors AGAIN while holding two small children.
I wasn’t exactly relishing in the idea of going to the post office everyday to retrieve my mail. If you couldn’t tell.
So at the closing when the builder’s realtor said (in a very put-off, snotty tone), “I don’t see what the big deal is, you can just go to the post office and pick up your mail,” I thought I was going to hurt her. She ended her sentence with a slight purse of the lips that I knew was code for, ”YOU STUPID IDIOT.”
That’s when I chewed off her head and spit it out, then stomped on it.
Okay, so that really wasn’t a quick story, but BOY do I feel BETTER.
See you soon, whether via stolen Internet access or whether the Comcast monopoly pulls their heads outta their fannies and gets me my MTV. I WANT MY MTV.
I told ya. They did the same thing to us…then CHARGED US for a month of cable at THE OLD AND THE NEW APARTMENT!!! When we called they said that is what we owed…when we said “uh no we haven’t been in that apartment for A MONTH” they said that they didn’t have our service to be changed for another WEEK…but they were charging us for the new apartment!!!! Then we couldn’t get our internet to work after they finally came and turned it on. When we called they said they didn’t know what to do since they didn’t know what the problem was. THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. It took us 3 calls to find someone to figure out that Hey, the modem is set up by address, and all they needed to do was change the address! Rocket Science! THEN they got rid of my email address!!!!!! I had to remake my email!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And like you said, we didn’t have choice at the time as they were the only service available. But now…Verizon has come in with Fios…DH is supposed to call so we can get rid of Crapcast.
Girl…just get a landline and get you NetZero….or better yet see if you can get DSL through the local phone company. I am telling you…just watch. They are gonna screw something up. I am warning you.
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Homeowners Associations are evil. In case you didn’t know that already. And maybe you should ask the realtor to join you on your daily trips to the post office?
That might open her eyes a bit.
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I want more details about the biting off of the head. Word for word.
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That SOOO sucks. Post office is hard enough with one let alone two kids in tow! What was she thinking?
Idea - could you just check out other previously approved mailboxes and just buy one of the same? Probably special order or some such nonesense. Suppose it will be a month or more before it is in. Good Luck!
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Oh, I’m with Sister Honey Bunch - we must have more detail, pleease !!
I’m thinking a certain realtor just signed herself up to babysit two kids while you’re at the post office. She can even just sit in the car with them while you run in. Either way, what’s left of her head will explode. Kids can do that, you know.
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Oh, and does SBC Global not love your neighborhood? They are far better than Comcrap.
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GAH! You totally have a right to be ticked off about the mailbox. The post office is the evil! ComCast too, though thankfully I’ve never had to deal with them but have heard horror stories.
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I think the realtor has just volunteered to stand on your curb and greet the mailman, in place of the mailbox she didn’t tell you that you needed, every day until you get one.
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So glad you’re online…however you got there….
Realtors (the one’s I’ve dealt with ) suck - I feel your pain.
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Well they don’t call it comcrap for nothing.
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Serves the neighbors right for not securing their network. Hee hee.
And that whole mailbox thing sounds completely insane. I loathe the post office. Here’s hoping you get a mailbox and a legit internet connection soon.
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Ooh, evil realtor. Is there anything worse, I ask you? Well, besides still not having TV or reliable interwebs. And don’t feel bad about the stealing, comcast had it coming.
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Oh yay for stealing wi-fi!
As I said, the post office IS a special hell for moms. I don’t know what it is about that place that turns every child into a hell-brat, but it does.
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Dude, I went POSTAL on an employee at a gas station. POSTAL!
And you have WWWWAAAAAAYYYYYY more reason.
I hate the post office and my kids are 8 and 11!
Hugs, you awesome little thief.
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You need to go wreak havoc at the Comcast office.
I don’t think you’d get in to trouble…after all isn’t not supplying someone with cable and internet immediately upon their relocation illegal ?
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Good job thieving internet access! We’ve missed you.
I’m sorry about the closing. We had a similar blow-up at ours. Good times.
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Well that fucking blows. I hate when cable companies do that shit. You have no other choice but to use them and so they know they can dick you around. Fuck um!
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I’m so glad you ate her head. That was totally appropriate.
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That STINKS! I hope you can get your cable/internet soon!!
I have 2 small children and I think I’d have been tempted to chew her head off as well!
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Welcome back - even if its just for a short visit! You too are looking smashing.
Yay for neighbors who don’t know how to use passwords for their networks!
Frankly, I think you didn’t stomp hard enough. Icky realator!
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Comcast SUCKS. I believe we are contemplated switching to ATT U-verse so we dont’ even need them for cable…but we’ll see how cost issues work themselves out. I hate comcast (and I’ve heard much word that Road Runner is no better). And the fact that in Indiana the different cable companies DO have their area monopolies and can RAPE you on fees pisses me off more.
But then…I could just be bitter over my assinine cable bill…
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Sooo frustrating. The lip purse/you’re an idiot thing I mean. I can somehow see you diving over the table at her, papers flying, your husband trying to pull you back. Hee hee!
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Clearly as a way of welcoming you to the neighborhood, the nice neighbors are donating their internet connection to you, in order for us all to get our much-needed playgroupie fix. Thanks to the neighbors!
People that make ‘you are so stupid faces’ make me INSANE. I always want to scream at them and make mean faces, but then I get all worried that they might not like me after that, so I just hush up….I’m a wuss like that.
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Thanks so much…I was feeling pretty tonight (ha). Oh the hell that is comcast. Thank God theft is possible. And thank God you spit that lady out. Yuck. She obviously has never gone into the post office with kids.
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Steal away! It’s their own fault for not putting password protection on their network, if you ask me.
I’d be furious, too. I hate going to the post office with the kids. It was bad enough when it was just Cordy, who would wait until the line was the longest to start shouting “Help! Help! Mommy, daddy, help me!” while I held her. Fun times.
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The Commies won’t even forward our mail from our last place cuz they will.not.forward. from a UPS store mailbox. UGH.
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You should email her supervisor (cc her) and compliment her profusely for offering to pick-up your mail for you everyday until your new mailbox arrives!
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I have Comcast too and I hate them! They suck! And where we are I have no choice. I can’t get anyone else. Good luck!
comcast is craptastic..NOT comcastic. i use qwest DSL and have few, if any, problems with it.
however, qwest has horrible customer service…i’m glad i don’t have to deal with them very often.
i was guilty of stealing wireless internet for several months before i finally broke down and installed a wireless router.
and i have different circumstances with our post office and mailbox…but i’m right there with you on that one. HOW ANNOYING.
here’s to internet thievery…
What, you didn’t clearly hear the realtor saying she would fetch your mail everyday? That it was no problem at all?
I too hate going to the post office. While Husband was deployed, I went to one of those pack and ship stores to mail stuff even though I had to pay an extra $4-5 per package! Totally didn’t even care!
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OMG. That’s the same way I feel about the post office. HATE the post office. PUT IN AUTO DOORS YOU MORONS!
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You go sister! How dare that b@*# think that anything with young children is simple. Maybe she could go and pick your mail up or at least babysit the kids. I would have done the same thing. Keep up the good fight.
Sorry about the cable too. At least you have the option of cable. We’ve move several times and have not always had the oppertunity to get cable. If you want to meet the devil himself just contact AT&T, they are in it for pure torture!
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Way to go. Get those evil realtors. I hope you get up and running again soon.
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Errr, don’t even get me started on my loathing of the post office with kids routine. This is why I am so terrible about sending baby and wedding gifts- it’s not the shopping I mind, it’s the sending.
Also, I second whoever asked for a blow-by-blow account of the biting off of the realtor’s head. I want EXACT QUOTES of what you told her.
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Comcast is sooooo not comcastic!
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Cable companies in general SUCK! Thank god for neighbors with unsecured wireless networks though.
Short post office story for you. I got an email from someone that had purchased a book from me on Half.com. They were writing to let me know that the package had arrived very quickly but arrived as an empty envelope with no book inside.
Apparently the contents of my package had fallen out somewhere along the way and the post office was kind enough to deliver my empty envelop anyway.
There is some USPS person walking around somewhere with a free copy of What to Expect the First Year. Either that or this big honking book jammed up one of their machines. I’ll probably get a bill in the mail if that’s the case.
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Oh girl, my head would be spinning.
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Yeah, I agree with you about the post office. Only add 1 kid for me.
And honestly, mail is the high point of my day. If I couldn’t just check it at my door every day, I’d be heartbroken. I say you find the most hideous mailbox you can, put it at your curb, and tell the neighbors that it’s just a stop-gap measure until your real mailbox gets there. If they complain, maintain that it’s their fault. Deny knowledge of a home owners association.
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I hate cable companies. We flip houses and usually move about once a year. So once a year, the cable company gets to find a new way to fuck me. We are signing the papers today to sell our current home; so i am sure that someone down at the cable office is just sitting there scheming a new way to get under my skin. Additionally, my mail lady leaves me hate mail (regarding complaints about my mailbox) on slips that resemble the type of slip one might get if they got sent to the principal’s office in grade school. She is a joykill.
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Check this out:
“…….Add a powerful media voice and a provocative site title to a blog, and it can have extraordinary impact. Bob Garfield, an Advertising Age columnist and National Public Radio host, lit up the blogosphere in October with a site cheekily called ComcastMustDie.com, one of the salvos in what he called his “consumer jihad” against the cable company. After repeated delays with his own service, Garfield, who has hosted a podcast on the site (special guest star Mona “The Hammer Lady” Shaw!), suggested that customers post their account numbers on the blog. Activity on the blog has slowed, but not before dozens of customers followed Garfield’s suggestion; many report back, he says, that Comcast called them soon after they posted their account numbers and rants. Garfield can’t help but point out the irony. “They’ve outsourced their worst-case customer-service issues to a blog dedicated to wiping them off the face of the earth.”
Marcelo Salup credits Garfield’s blog for finally getting Comcast to show up on time when his Internet and cable connections failed. Years of dialing the call center for a technician yielded at least eight missed appointments by Comcast, he says, but a post on ComcastMustDie brought a phone call the next morning and, later, a lead technician who showed up on time. Now, Salup says: “Anytime I have a problem, I also post it on the blog.” …..”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23283402/page/2/
hehehehehehehehe
Oops…I just realized that I put in the wrong thing for my website above.
my fault for multitasking! HAHA
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They just test your patience no matter where you go Trixie!!
I’m glad you are getting some internet connection, but I cannot wait until you are back full force everyday. I live for you silliness!!!
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Note to self: Don’t piss off Le Binky Bitch, lest you want your head chewed off, spit out and stomped on.
Did you work out the mailbox thing yet?
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