I woke up in the early hours, came on the internet, and then the internet stopped working. I got booted. Couldn't get back on. Tried all the old remedies, nothing worked. Called Verizon to tell them.
The Verizon guy started telling me to go down to the basement and look for two boxes, and to do this and that and the other thing with them, and I said slow down, I don't know what you're talking about, it's not like I'm a Verizon tech myself. I took notes. I hung up. I went down to the basement and searched for the boxes. Did not find them.
Called Verizon again to tell them I couldn't find the boxes. The Verizon guy asked me if my tv works. I tried it. It did not. Oh shit, as they say. He talked to me for a while and then I heard the tv on. He had fixed it from there. The modem lights were on. I'm all set. I hung up.
I tried to get online. No luck. The tv went off. The modem lights went off. Oh shit, as they say.
I went downstairs again and searched and searched for the two boxes. In the garage. In the front basement. In the back basement. No boxes. I'm feeling frustrated and stressed by this point. Looking all over the floors in all those rooms, behind things, under things.
I call Verizon a third time, this time determined to tell them to send someone over, because they resist that and threaten you with service charges if they have to send someone. I tell the Verizon guy that this is the third time I called. Right away he agrees to send a tech over.
Morning comes. My wife tells me that the refrigerator is not working. All our food will spoil. I have to go to work. I tell her to call an electrician.
While I'm at work, my wife leaves me frantic messages that the phone doesn't work. The phone, the tv, the internet, are all Verizon. Fridge don't work. Nothing works. She's calling from her cell phone but doesn't know how charged up it is.
I'm thinking this morning is even worse than yesterday when I had a fender bender.
She calls back to say that an electrician is in the house and he charges $49 to set foot in the door and over $300 to do any work at all. I get on the phone with the guy. I want to pick his brains for the $49. I talk to him about the circuit breaker, and the switch that simply refuses to stay to the right, and about the little red light where it says Off. He says I have a dead something or other. A dead short, a dead something, I don't remember. Okay, that's worth $49. And he convinces me that he needs to do the work for $300. He sounds like a good electrician to me. I say go ahead.
Then I get more messages from my wife, saying that the refrigerator works now but that we have a disaster electrically, wires that are fried, lots of things doubled up, begging for a fire. And the guy says the job will cost over $3,000. And a later message says the job will cost over $4,000.
Holy doody, Batman.
Then more messages. The Verizon tech came to the house very promptly and connected the two boxes to a different outlet. The tv works. The phone works. The internet works.
So a bunch of outlets went out of order all at once, the one the boxes were on, the one the fridge was on, the one the stove is on. Electric revolution at my house. The electrician said it's a good thing the house didn't burn down.
lfbno7 posted on Sep 07, 2007
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secretlife said on Sep 07, 2007....
wow 4K?wowi might actually ask another electrician to come in and give you an estimate on fixing what's wrong in your wiring.that's alot of money to take one person's word.is it safe to use the electrical in your home at all now? -
destinydiva said on Sep 07, 2007....
doo dee doo doo doo dee doo do :-) -
wakingharmony said on Sep 07, 2007....
Oh My Lennie... I certaintly hope your weekend is great You have it coming to you. Maybe you should try the lotto. -
destinydiva said on Sep 07, 2007....
mr7~ my arse and I would like to thank you, we have been laughing away all night at your comments and posts :-) -
lfbno7 said on Sep 07, 2007....
7, 11, 17, 23, 36, 50, and Margaret all your troubles are over.
Secret life, if you were my wife I'd say go for it, but the one I have said she likes and trusts this electrician so 4K it is, and it's going on 0% interest for at least 6 months.
Desty, yeah, um, I want you to laugh.
Hey, today Shelley brought me home her leftover pastitsio from a diner. That is a Greek ziti and chopmeat thing. She also had bread pudding, and when she reheated the pastitsio for me she accidentally shoveled in the bread pudding and then told me it tastes better that way.
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wakingharmony said on Sep 07, 2007....
lmbo....... how did it taste? I was just thinking about making bread pudding yesterday without the ziti though hehe...
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gingersoul said on Sep 07, 2007....
Lf.......wow.....4 thousand???
That's why i learned to appreciate living in an apartment....I have called today because my light in the living room doesn't work and they have to change the A/C filter. They will come tomorrow, fix and go. No charge for me. Don't you love it?
Wheb i used to be a home owner any little thing would cost billions.
I am sorry for all your troubles but i would do like Secret...second opinion...
Oh, I love bread puding....there is a little slice for me?...:-)
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quietone said on Sep 07, 2007....
Well, I can tell ya, you had way better luck with verizon than I did. Now they are charging me for DSL that I had that never worked right to begin with. Good luck with the wiring. I'd definately look into it, even if it is working now.Yes, I will have some bread pudding..I love it, -
ellamae14 said on Sep 07, 2007....
Hi. $4k is equivalent to almost 200,000 pesos. wow. goodluck with that. You have a way higher standard of living than here in our country. an electrician here will do all the wiring connection, install all the sockets etc for 300 pesos (that's roughly $6.00 only) and he can finish all that in one day, half a day if you keep him well fed. And 300 pesos here is considered expensive already.
DSL, Wifi, phone, internet connection cost something like 1,000 pesos a month (roughly $20.0 only)
I'm suddenly filled with gratitude and love for my country. hehe. I think if someday, i'll have to work in the US, I will make sure that I'm multi-skilled. I'll have a heart attack if I receive a bill like that. :P -
lfbno7 said on Sep 08, 2007....
I love bread pudding but not in ziti and not with chopmeat. She doesn't have a feel for what ingredients would go well together.
Around here, everything about fixing up your house is so complicated and expensive. And the real estate taxes are so high. My real estate taxes are something like $7,000 a year. Does that sound high to you? You pay it quarterly, and it really breaks you when it comes around. I'd like to move to an apartment but at this point we can't. Maybe when both my daughters have left the house, and it's just me and Shelley, we can start to think a little about it. But oh God we have so much stuff all over the house cause she is a clutterer, and I don't see how we can get rid of enough of it to even consider moving. I'd like to just throw it all out.
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ellamae14 said on Sep 08, 2007....
oh, shelley sounds like my mom. she collects old stuff, my mum, that our house looks more like a junkshop, with assorted empty biscuits containers,broken electric equipments, microwaveable plastic containers ( of maybe a couple of hundreds already), school papers, bulky broken down moth eaten furnitures, sacks of old clothes, unusable old shoes, etc. It can make you go nuts, really. But she doesn't have proper inventory, so when she's out, we dispose those junks little by little.
Here, the "amilyar" house taxes goes directly to the city hall. And it depends on the progressiveness of your city. In our city, it cost 3000 pesos, $60.0 per year. you can choose to pay it once or monthly. -
lfbno7 said on Sep 08, 2007....
You should see her car. It is a rolling junkyard. The whole back seat is covered with magazines, clothes, laundry bags, things she hasn't seen in years. When you want to sit in the front seat she has to clear it off for you. I can imagine what's in the trunk. -
ZsuzsiO said on Sep 08, 2007....
Note to self: Do not mess with verizon what so ever...One of our famous Rabbis told a storry that is circling around among us since:After his ship sank, a man found himself on a deserted island. He tried to get most of his belongings out of the water, and what little he could save he gathered under a dry pile of woods. He walked around the island to look for some food, but he's had no luck. He tried to shout or find his way out, but there was nothing he could do. He was terrified for his life, knowing that he will not be able to survive like that. So he went out again to try to fish.It was extremely hot that day. A drop of water helped the sun ray to light a little fire on the pile of woods where our man had stocked his belongings. The wind helped that little fire to light the whole forrest, and when our man returned, all he saw was a huge black smoke. ALL HIS BELONGINGS WERE GONE.All his life was waisted. No food, no shelter, no memories.He started yelling to God "Why me? Why this? How could you do all this to me?" But of course, there was no answer.The next day a boat arrived to rescue him. The man was shocked, and asked surprisingly how on Earth did they find him."By the smoke signals you set for us, of course" was the answer.See, my friend, some times things look like all things go terribly. But there is a reason for all that. Something bigger, something better is about to happen.Remember the fire I've had in Channukah? My whole life was gone in 38 minutes. GONE.But I am here, good things have happened to me since, and i am actually glad all that did happen to me. Cause the changes that fallowed that fire, really have changed me and my life.So do not feel bad. Do not let your frustration get to you.Look at the glass half full and see what positive is gonna come due to all this mess.Hugs
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lfbno7 said on Sep 08, 2007....
That was a good story.
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