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So, I've been sitting on the bare floor for four hours, waiting for Verizon. At half past twelve I give up and call them, and actually get straight through to A Human on this continent, mirabile dictu.
"Oh, they've already turned it on. Your order doesn't have any jacks on it, so they didn't need to knock on your door."
but but but the order lady told me....
"I'm sorry about that, but they won't have needed to, so. Anyways it should be on now, why don't you plug a phone in and test."
....because there are no jacks in the apartment. Well, shit. You would think, would you not, that an apartment that's been inhabited since 1872 might have had ONE PERSON WITH PHONE SERVICE LIVING HERE? Ever? At some point? I certainly did, so contemptuously checked "no" on the tickybox. Mais non.
So, I must be here 8am-noon on Tuesday, and will pay a three-digit sum, and the nice man will make inside wiring appear. At least I shall have a chair.
Now to return to NJ, and deliver office cats, and pack more boxes, and make time to meet up with my mom who drove here to give me a coffeepot.
"Oh, they've already turned it on. Your order doesn't have any jacks on it, so they didn't need to knock on your door."
but but but the order lady told me....
"I'm sorry about that, but they won't have needed to, so. Anyways it should be on now, why don't you plug a phone in and test."
....because there are no jacks in the apartment. Well, shit. You would think, would you not, that an apartment that's been inhabited since 1872 might have had ONE PERSON WITH PHONE SERVICE LIVING HERE? Ever? At some point? I certainly did, so contemptuously checked "no" on the tickybox. Mais non.
So, I must be here 8am-noon on Tuesday, and will pay a three-digit sum, and the nice man will make inside wiring appear. At least I shall have a chair.
Now to return to NJ, and deliver office cats, and pack more boxes, and make time to meet up with my mom who drove here to give me a coffeepot.
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Date: 2009-04-03 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 06:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 05:23 pm (UTC)It's not as if whoever was dispatched wouldn't have been equipped to install jacks, if he'd bothered to notice that none were there.
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Date: 2009-04-03 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 06:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 06:28 pm (UTC)You were clever to call them when you did.
More deep breaths.
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Date: 2009-04-06 02:24 am (UTC)