I’m triply glad now that we wound up having to get internet from the cable company because the phone was supposed to be activated at 10 a.m. I was up at the butt crack of dawn this morning getting ready to hare down two cities over to return toilet seats to Home Depot, pick some more stuff up at the apartment, busting ass so that I would be back here for 9:30 a.m. so that I wouldn’t miss the phone company guy, but it’s now almost eleven and I haven’t even heard from them let alone seen them on the property.
I wound up having to call them. The woman got pretty snippy with me because she couldn’t hear what I was saying in answer to all the confirmation questions until I snapped back, “Well, I’m SORRY. I’m having to use my cell phone because your people haven’t turned my phone on yet!” Then she became nicer all of a sudden. Although still pretty unhelpful.
She told me that they do show that we’re in queue to get turned on. Gee, thanks. I have it written that my appointment was almost an hour ago. I knew that. Can you at least tell me WHEN this ten a.m. is in Embarq-land? Because here in Florida it was 53 minutes ago. “Well, they’re running behind.” “Okay, how behind? one hour? two hours? eight hours?” “I can’t tell you that. It will be done before the end of business today.”
Oh, well, that’s great. I’m supposed to just sit around at home all day on Christmas Eve when we have relatives coming in from all over and are supposed to be at my FILs house? I can’t do that! My SIL is only here until 9 a.m. tomorrow.
Then the small pinprick of light appears at the end of the tunnel. Because we’re NOT getting internet we don’t have to be here to have the phone turned on, because all they have to do is mess with things outside on the junction box. They don’t need access to the house itself. So, once we’re done with our celebratory brunch we can mosey on out of here and there’s no problem.
I just hope they actually do get things turned on today like they said, because I’m hoping to have Mum come over here in the morning so she can call our relatives in England for Christmas as all she has right now is a cell phone and that would be a hideous phone bill for her.
