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Now what?

The lad arrived home around 5:30 in a rather cranky mood.

“Why didn’t you answer the phone?!” he nearly sobbed.

Poor kid walked home from waaaay out in the sticks, with all his duffle, after a hard x-country workout this afternoon. He was pretty exhausted and none too happy.

“Are you sure you dialed the right number? Did the answering machine pick up? I didn’t hear the phone ring at all.”

And...well...no wonder. The phone line is dead. Very, very dead. With no explanation, so far. I have a digital phone line as part of the complete Comcast package. I’ve liked my digital phone line and have had no problems at all. Until now. According to Comcast, there is nothing wrong with the line and nothing amiss shows up. Which means, I think they are trying to tell me, the problem exists inside my house someplace. And that, of course, means that I can warm up the check writing pen any time now.

Or maybe not. Comcast has been known to tell me nothing was wrong on their end, only to find out differently. But, until we sort it out, I don’t have a land line. And the cell phone battery only wants to hold a 10 minute charge.

Crap.

Posted on 10/12/04 at 06:20 PM
 




Linkmeister

Are you paying that “Inside Maintenance” fee every month?  If so, take advantage of it.  I had a jack fixed and new jacks put in all over the house for no add’l charge a few months ago because I’d been paying that fee.

United States   Posted by Linkmeister on 10/12/04  at  07:07 PM





Kate

I used to pay for the inside maintenance when my phone was with the the telephone company. But now that I’m with the cable company I don’t appear to have that insurance. I don’t remember now if I asked for it, if it just wasn’t available since they aren’t a phone company or what. In any case, too bad for me, looks like. When I get phone service again, I’ll inquire.

After several tries, lots of being left on hold for 15 minutes, and a lot of cell phone recharging, I finally got through to a live voice and scheduled a house call for tomorrow. Sometime between noon and 4PM. Love those windows. I sure hope the problem is outside somewhere.

United States   Posted by Kate on 10/12/04  at  09:57 PM





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