Life Lessons

One Moment Please

November 6, 2012 by Krista 3 Comments
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One Moment Please

That’s a phrase that has appeared on the television screen in our bedroom for the last three nights.  The funny thing is–it’s ONE BIG LIE!  It’ doesn’t take moments for a picture to appear.  It doesn’t even take hours.  It just doesn’t appear at all.  Period.

I won’t mention names, but our cable provider, whose name starts with a C and ends with a T, is probably to blame.  The TV and cable had been working fine until Matt called to correct another minor problem, and they told him to reboot the system.  Now all we can watch are shows that have been recorded on our DVR.  We can’t watch live TV.

This has led to several nightly calls to our cable company.  None of which produce good moods in our household.  Again, I won’t mention names of fellow residents with bad moods over this. (Starts with an M, ends with a T.)

What we have figured out is that there is no problem because nothing shows up on their system that says there’s a problem.  It’s possible we might be making all this up—according to them.  I even heard Matt ask if he could speak to one of the “underground technicians.” Underground technicians?

Grasping at straws, Friends.  We are grasping at straws.

So last night, determined to believe that somehow the problem had corrected itself, and somehow the cable company figured out the issue, we turned on the TV.  Yep, One Moment Please.  We smiled at each other through gritted teeth while we waited several minutes.  Nothing.  Starving for some entertainment, we turned on a recorded show.  Guess what?  No sound.

Fun times here.  Fun times, indeed.

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