O-M-G. Today my cable went out. Totally out. All day. All day long! It isn't right; it isn't fair. I paid! On time, even. But it was....OUT! No internet. No cable TV. Is this what drug withdrawal is like? I've had flu that hurt less!
Really, it was terrible. It was out when I left for work and then it was out when I came home for lunch. I toyed with the idea of driving my laptop 19 miles to the nearest place I could plug it in but...I had to go back to work. I passed two cable service trucks on my road on the way back to work. Yes, I did stop and rolled down my window and asked them how soon I could have my cable back. THEY DIDN'T KNOW!!!
It was torture. All afternoon at work I worried whether I would have internet access when I got home. I just knew it had to be fixed. After all, at $88 a month, how could the cable company let me down like that??? ARGH. Then I got home, clicked and entered and it said MY CONNECTIVITY HAD BEEN LOST!!! I freaking knew my connectivity had been lost, all I wanted to know was when it was coming back. I had a meltdown. I screamed. Really, really loud. My dogs ran to the basement and I still haven't found the cats. Oh, it was brutal. You wouldn't have known me (well, maybe a couple of you would have. 
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)Obviously I got it back. I punched and clicked, beat up the mouse, unplugged and re-plugged every plug, DUSTED the plugs on my hands and knees, threatened, implored, kicked, screamed and whined and eventually it came back. My-connectivity-had-been-lost. HOW DARE THEY?
I feel your pain, Miriam. Aren't we spoiled? ;-)
ReplyDeleteCompletely. I never knew what a wimp I really was until today.
ReplyDeleteI haven't laughed that hard for a while, sorry I know you were in pain. I HATE life when my emails cannot reach me. I know there is that really important email that will change my life, bring me great wealth, and WELL maybe Gerard Butler was trying to reach me. Life is just not fair sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI am glad your cable repair men are still alive and that they finally gave you your life back again.
YES, I feel your pain.......
Hugs to you for such a traumatic day.
Well I could just picture you doing that, now if you had added that snow you get on top that would have won an award, although maybe you should have anyway Miriam. I am glad you got it back and you have seen me in my woes, going months and months with no internet, the latest was just in Jan thru thru Mar, I had to wait to get it here, but thank heaven for cell phones with internet access or I would have no hair left, no voice either and probably hit everything in my way. I feel your pain, get a drill with access that helps Miriam. Love and hugs, and maybe get to see you st RT Chicago 2012. Dang known you forever it seems haha.
ReplyDeleteLainey, I already felt for you going through internet withdrawal, but now I REALLY know what it was like. And that was only one day! Ack, I disgust myself with my dependency!
ReplyDeletePaisley, I really hope Gerard makes contact. (You can take that any way you like.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chuckle, Miriam. I've been there, and "withdrawal" is the right word. Ironic that you, a distinguished historical novelist who writes about times when a single letter took months to arrive, could suffer from such a malady. Glad your service is back!
ReplyDeletePat, I've faced my own shortcomings. Knights in chain mail might be thrilling, but if I tried to live in an era without running water, medical and dental care and Starbucks, I wouldn't last a week.
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