Broken Modem
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****So.......my internet went out yesterday just about an hour before my ebay auctions closed. Not good, not good at all. *
****By the time I talked to Verizon in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and was told someone would be out between 9am and 5pm, my nerves were a bit raw.
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****Technician gets here at 4pm and within 3 minutes of arrival says, "your modem has issues." Things at Verizon don't break, they "have issues."
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****"Great, says I, "get out a new one."
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****"I realize they are small and I could easily carry 30 or 40 on my truck," he says, "but they don't allow that. *You'll have to go to Best Buy or even WalMart unless you want to wait three days for us to mail you one."
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****Right! WalMart, my favorite shopping experience. *In the meantime I'll scoot down to the library and send out my ebay invoices. Wrong! * The library is closed due to a pipe in the computer room that "had issues", too. *Perhaps my modem and the pipe could get together for a bit of group therapy and work on their issues.
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****Obviously, the new ($79.95) modem is working. *And on that "issue" - explain to me why I pay Verizon every month for the privilege of using their DSL service and they charge me an arm and a leg for their modem?
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****Therese over at Aussie Coffee Shop has given me an award but I must wait until later to post it and pass this glorius award on. RCIA class awaits me........
