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Yesterday afternoon, in order to fix a sewer pipe backup for my next door neighbor, it became necessary to dig a deep trench in my back yard. (The lines become connected at some point.) The guy doing the digging dug with exuberance. Of course, he cut my cable. This left me without television, internet, and telephone. To him, this was no big deal, because I could just call the cable company and they would come and fix it. It also was no big deal if he stopped working as the light dimmed, because he could come back today to finish.

Last night, I rediscovered talk radio. It sucks.

The cable repairmen arrived this morning within the "window" I had been promised. They arrived along with the first drops of a torrential rainstorm, but persevered. One end of the cable was sticking out of one end of the trench, but they had to dig around more to find another cable end. Finally, they found cable buried lower than the first end. They spliced. Nothing worked. They decided the deeper cable may have been put there years ago and was not relevant to current service. They dug around some more, but could not find anything else but tree roots. It's pouring rain by now, and they are drenched. They decided to run a new cable from the back of my house to some mysterious destination on the other side of the back fence. (One cable guy stood on my gas meter to look over the fence. He knew where he was going.) The cable was draped across the yard and the fence, and they drove around to the next street to make the hookup. We called back and forth through the fence until I could assure them that all service was restored.

I don't know if they made personal contact with the neighbor whose fence and yard have the new cable "drape." If not, I anticipate that said neighbor, whom I've never seen, will decide that someone is trying to steal their cable service, and rip out the line.

The sewer guy couldn't resume his work today because it is too wet. I now have a three-foot-deep trench with at least a foot of rainwater at the bottom. I'm also watching the mound of dirt that would otherwise refill the trench being washed away. I find it too painful to consider the possibility that the cable guy somehow might have damaged the gas meter by standing on it to look over the fence.

I'm going to go watch Izzy sing "Over the Rainbow" again. Did I mention it's raining? Buckets.

silvercamaro wrote:Yesterday afternoon, in order to fix a sewer pipe backup for my next door neighbor, it became necessary to dig a deep trench in my back yard. (The lines become connected at some point.) The guy doing the digging dug with exuberance. Of course, he cut my cable. This left me without television, internet, and telephone. To him, this was no big deal, because I could just call the cable company and they would come and fix it. It also was no big deal if he stopped working as the light dimmed, because he could come back today to finish.

Last night, I rediscovered talk radio. It sucks.

The cable repairmen arrived this morning within the "window" I had been promised. They arrived along with the first drops of a torrential rainstorm, but persevered. One end of the cable was sticking out of one end of the trench, but they had to dig around more to find another cable end. Finally, they found cable buried lower than the first end. They spliced. Nothing worked. They decided the deeper cable may have been put there years ago and was not relevant to current service. They dug around some more, but could not find anything else but tree roots. It's pouring rain by now, and they are drenched. They decided to run a new cable from the back of my house to some mysterious destination on the other side of the back fence. (One cable guy stood on my gas meter to look over the fence. He knew where he was going.) The cable was draped across the yard and the fence, and they drove around to the next street to make the hookup. We called back and forth through the fence until I could assure them that all service was restored.

I don't know if they made personal contact with the neighbor whose fence and yard have the new cable "drape." If not, I anticipate that said neighbor, whom I've never seen, will decide that someone is trying to steal their cable service, and rip out the line.

The sewer guy couldn't resume his work today because it is too wet. I now have a three-foot-deep trench with at least a foot of rainwater at the bottom. I'm also watching the mound of dirt that would otherwise refill the trench being washed away. I find it too painful to consider the possibility that the cable guy somehow might have damaged the gas meter by standing on it to look over the fence.

I'm going to go watch Izzy sing "Over the Rainbow" again. Did I mention it's raining? Buckets.

GAH!!!

That is awful.

Dealing with that stuff is the total pits.

Grrrrr and other bad words

I didn't know you were bilingual. Well, I knew you were a journalist and speak with a forked tongue......

I have come to the conclusion there are no more decent "service" people anymore.

If the cable isn't buried, more than likely you'll have lightning strike your TV during the next storm. It happened to me when we built our other house and couldn't get the cable people to come bury the cable. TV was struck by lightning twice. Once the cable was buried, it never happened again.

Might not have had anything to do with it, but you'd have a hard time convincing me of that.

Hope you get everything back together soon.

ulysses5019 wrote:

Grrrrr and other bad words

I didn't know you were bilingual. Well, I knew you were a journalist and speak with a forked tongue......

I can swear in many languages. I learned as a small child, in case I ever wanted to be a sailor.

Go ahead and use the whole word.

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kayrharris wrote:If the cable isn't buried, more than likely you'll have lightning strike your TV during the next storm. It happened to me when we built our other house and couldn't get the cable people to come bury the cable. TV was struck by lightning twice. Once the cable was buried, it never happened again.

Arghhhh! Did I mention that it's raining, and said rain has arrived with thunder and lightning, of which the next close strike might be expected, oh, any minute now?

MarleysGh0st wrote:Go ahead and use the whole word.

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Thank you, Marley. You made me laugh out loud for the first time today. Actually. Out. Loud.

Will it cheer you up that I spoke the words Norman Oklahoma at lunch today with my boss?

christie1111 wrote:Will it cheer you up that I spoke the words Norman Oklahoma at lunch today with my boss?

Yay! And I hope he paid for lunch.

I dislike the original line-cutter person, but the dedication of the folks who worked in the rain is admirable.

In honor of the line-cutter person.....yet another avatar.

Ritterskoop wrote:I dislike the original line-cutter person, but the dedication of the folks who worked in the rain is admirable.

The guys from Cox were great. The line-cutter person didn't do it on purpose. The guy who had the pipe blockage did not lose cable, internet or phone. It's a darn good thing I love his dog, or he'd be in trouble.

ulysses5019 wrote:In honor of the line-cutter person.....yet another avatar.

How did you find the photograph of me?

That was just a cartoon......here's the real thing....

silvercamaro wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:In honor of the line-cutter person.....yet another avatar.

How did you find the photograph of me?

Not that you wouldn't look very lovely in such an outfit, but I don't think you need to use such attention getting clothing as this.

By the time you read this, Uly will have changed his avatar anyway.

silvercamaro wrote:

christie1111 wrote:Will it cheer you up that I spoke the words Norman Oklahoma at lunch today with my boss?

Yay! And I hope he paid for lunch.

We were out with a supplier so SHE didn't have to pay.

silvercamaro wrote:

ulysses5019 wrote:In honor of the line-cutter person.....yet another avatar.

How did you find the photograph of me?

Those who didn't see the cartoon avatar can have a field day with this one. I'm just sayin'.......

ulysses5019 wrote:That was just a cartoon......here's the real thing....

My kingdom to attend this party with an ice-cold drink to spill ...

ulysses5019 wrote:That was just a cartoon......here's the real thing....

Why, yes! You can tell it's me because of the long blonde curls.

Update: The trench is now filled to ground level. I hope Lizbit can swim, in the event she needs to.

MarleysGh0st wrote:Go ahead and use the whole word.

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I agree! <grumble>®<grumble>®<grumble>®!

ulysses5019 wrote:That was just a cartoon......here's the real thing....

Just say no to crack.