Yech! What a weekend! I haven't been able to get online because I got cut off... by the cable company!
This is what I would like to note as one of the many trauma's of being a single parent with a budget, cable is an expense that is put on the back burner when necessary. This weekend it wasn't planned to be on the back burner, but alas Charter won that battle!
I paid my bill Friday directly out of my checking account. However, they didn't get the payment until today, so this weekend was a cable free one. Not that we watch much TV, we are online more than watching TV, but all in all it was an inconvenience.
So dare I ask if my monthly statement will subtract the two days I was without service?????? Hmmmmmm...... I may look into this.
Charter & I have had a love hate relationship over the years. I have come to the conclusion that Charter is just another way for the man to keep a good woman down!!! :) This is a photo I took a year or two ago when I first decided to go without cable. It was the result of a humiliating day when the cable man came over to strip my son and myself of our cable "accessories". At the time I had been a customer for over seven years so I had paid for the equipment ten times over, the cable guy even mentioned how obsolete the items were while in my house. I made sure he took every cable, cord or piece... even the ones he said I could keep. If it was associated with Charter, after his visit, I wanted it out of my house ASAP!
Those who know me well know about my fight with the cable company of the north shore! Even thru my low period of investing in one of those special "boxes" so you can watch local TV without having to pay a cable company for it. Unfortunately, in my area you can't view the local channels with just "the box" you have to also invest in an antenna. It was months on end that we would hang this antenna in various areas around the house. It was a huge metal grid of an antenna meant for a rooftop. My son is the product of a single parent household, and I wanted him to have at least that, so I never did scurry up onto the roof to set up the antenna. We adapted, as we have to many of life's greater consequences, by randomly moving the antenna around the house... on top of the recliner, on top of the sofa, on top of the TV cabinet, outside of the front door, hanging on a nail on the post outside of the door, etc. Yes, we were one of the redneck elite with our antenna, and proud the man was no longer keeping us down!
Unfortunately, the picture only came in crystal clear when i was holding the antenna, facing the south, above my head, and behind the sofa. My son and I both agreed that this was not the most comfortable way to watch TV. Then American Idol started that year, and one of my most beloved cousins came over and installed the antenna in my attic on a metal rod so that I could turn it left to right as needed for each channel. We thought that we finally had the best of life! After a month of scurrying up the attic steps and yelling down to my son, "Is it on NOW?" over and over again I started to worry if it was worth it.
Again, another conspiracy was detected! Every program came in crystal clear, but when American Idol came on we got static, lines, and hardly any picture at all. Off I would go to scurry up the attic steps with dust mop in hand (handle was long enough to turn antenna without going all the way up the attic stairs). "Is it on now?" "NOOOOO" my sweet child would reply to his mother. After three more times back and forth with these statements I would try my hardest to remember everything my yoga teacher taught me about relaxation. Then something would click and I would find myself beating the antenna with the dust mop handle. Shortly after that incident I sucked it up and called Charter.
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