They called in the evening and my husband spoke with them. Unexpectedly, he didn’t hang up immediately but spoke with them and then asked me: “Do we want cable for $4 per month?”
\nI paused. My higher self said no. Then a vision floated before my eyes:\u00a0approaching winter, empty evenings, couch bliss.\u00a0While I don’t watch much television, there is one major weakness my husband and I share: design\/reno\/decorating shows. Just imagine\u00a0evenings of shared renovation bliss!<\/p>\n
“OK. Let’s try it.”<\/p>\n
The cable guy came. It was fine. Except that he couldn’t really fully install it and get the cables properly connected, so we had a random PVR box sitting in the middle of our floor, and loose cables around, but it worked. And wow, a house hunting show on my own television! While I’m folding laundry! Awesome.<\/p>\n
My husband came home. My daughter woke up. And then the 3 of us were sitting there watching the rectangle.<\/p>\n
To avoid that, we tried to confine viewing to times when she was asleep. Surprise! That doesn’t leave a lot of time. And we didn’t talk too much when the thing was on.<\/p>\n
But still: renovation shows!!<\/p>\n
The bill came. Would you believe it if I told you that it was more than $4 per month? Yes. The first call back was extremely unsuccessful as they couldn’t explain why our bill was more than we had been promised. They said we would get a call back.<\/p>\n
Would you be surprised if I told you we didn’t get a call back?<\/p>\n
At that point, we were packing to move out of our condo that afternoon for a month (reno work). I called and got the brilliant Kara. She listened, empathized, apologized, and got to work. She found the problem (a promo code not entered) and got us back to the promised $4\/month. And when I told her that regardless, we were cancelling, she was able to do some magic to reduce our monthly bill by almost $40 for the next 6 months while downgrading our cable package. No more reno shows, so sad … but also no more rectangle, and cost savings for 6 months.<\/p>\n
We’re now in a hotel, enjoying the occasional tv viewing, and agree that it’s best as an occasional bonus, not a regular menu item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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