Just a very short installment on the assness of the assness of late.
The internet and cable TV/DVR (Comcast) is in his name, and rather than do the civil and simple thing of meeting at the Comcast store and changing the financial responsibility for the equipment from him to me, he took the equipment and told me he’d cancelled the service.
But I called Comcast and no such stop service was ordered. Not only have I confirmed that I married a liar, I can’t cancel it, since it’s not in my name (seems like it’s MY HOUSE, so I should be able to cancel it, but no, sorry ma’am, we can’t authorize a cancellation) and I can’t order new service until the existing service is cancelled.
So. He called back a day later and said he’d return the equipment (no doubt realizing that when he went to cancel, he’d be expected to pay the last month’s fee, so why not give me back the equipment and let me pay it). I expected him to return the equipment that night or the next day. But days go by. No calls. No return of the equipment. No return of my fifty thousand calls. No cancellation. Nothing. It’s been a full week now. And now the service bill is past due, on top of everything else.
Meanwhile, he KNOWS I work from home two days a week and that I absolutely can’t without broadband. He also knows that this happens to be the single most critical time for me to be able to support long work hours with the culmination of my project nigh on the horizon, and I can’t do that if I have to physically be at the office, because I absolutely have to leave by 4:30 in order to make it to daycare on time.
I can’t do what I do via dial-up.
I can order DSL, but I don’t want DSL. Besides, I would also have to reconfigure my router and I don’t want to do that. Such a hassle.
It’s very hard to remain cool and composed when I am so irritated.
I’m still planning on taking the high road through all this, but arggggghhhhhh, it’s very frustrating.
