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TV Troubles
After
Mediacom jacked up their prices after the first two years, we switched TV
providers again, this time choosing DirecTV, which uses a satellite dish, which
may or may not be relevant to this situation.
Anyway, our box isn’t working, so we can’t watch TV. As it is Sunday night, a new episode of
Boardwalk Empire, my family’s favorite show, is on. My mom is devastated that we aren’t going to
be able to watch it, even though they’re going to be replaying it all
week. Anyway, we can determine that she is
quite rattled, because she has resorted to cleaning the house. She is cleaning the house. She is rattled.
I don’t
understand why we always seem to be the ones having all the TV problems. Whenever there’s a weather-related issue or
just out-of-the-blue problems, it always affects us. Oh well, enough complaining. I just wish we could get I’m On for internet
in our area, because everyone else is always raving about how amazing and cheap
it is. And the worst thing is that the
repair guys always take at least a couple days to come fix it, and when they do
it’s always a good five or six hours late.
I wish we could just get a good cable company in our area that never
gets screwed up and needs to get fixed, like the other ninety percent of the
population. Whatever, we could
definitely have worse problems.
Generally,
TV providers that use a satellite dish are more shaky, as the weather can
easily screw it up, and the dish is just finicky to start with. With cable companies, sometimes the cable
gets cut by underground animals miles away, and after the company gets a couple
hundred calls, they haul it and get out to fix it right away. For this reason, I prefer cable over
satellite, but Mediacom is the only cable provider that serves my area, and
after the first two years their prices go absolutely through the roof.
Hopefully
the DirecTV guy gets here to fix our crap by tomorrow, because that way we’ll
be able to watch the reruns of Boardwalk Empire as early as possible.
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