Phollower and I recently canceled our home phone and plan to just use our cell phones. When I called to cancel the phone representative tried to scare us into keeping a home number.
Phone rep: "My husband and I tried this and it didn't work out for us. Hopefully, it will work better for you and your husband."
Me: "Mmhmm" (undertone - please don't tell me your long story)
Phone rep: "During a thunderstorm, my mother-in-law broke her leg at our house and none of our 4 cell phones would dial out until after the storm."
Me: "Hmmm. Terrible."
Phone rep: "And then our son was in a head on collision and could not call us collect from the hospital."
Me: "Wow." (thinking to myself - you had quite a run of bad luck. I can't believe the hospital did not call from a regular phone.)
Phone rep: "And we started going over our minutes."
Me: "We'll be fine. We don't use all our minutes." (repressing the urge to explain that for the cost of our home phone which we never use we could double our minute allowance per month)
Phone rep: "I guess if you only use about 1/3 of your minutes, you will be ok. It is all those 800 numbers that do it."
Me: "Hmmm." (thinking how many 800 numbers do you call???)
Phone rep: "Now you don't have a security system or anything do you?"
Me: "No." (concerned that now she is casing the house)
Phone rep: "And no DVR or HD service through a satellite provider?"
Me: "They can use the internet connection." (now even more concerned about the casing issue)
Phone rep: "How can they do that? How do you get the internet?"
Me: "Using the cable internet provider."
Phone rep: "Oh I can't get that. I live in the country."
Me: "Too bad. It's really nice."
Phone rep: "I bet." (seems I am a better salesperson than she is!)
Phollower just left to run some errands. I told him to call if he needed anything, unless there is a thunderstorm.
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So naturally I called and said,
"Hi Honey. I just wanted to let you know that it looks like some bad weath... is... ming... phone... fore... storm... and..."
That's the kind of humor Sylvia just has to live with every day. Jealous?
Hey thanks for reminding me, I need to cancel our home phone service. I connected TIVO to our wireless network and that was the last reason to even need a phone.
Phollower, I'm more certain than ever that you are somehow related to my husband.
tysgirl: I'm going to try my best to take that as a compliment. It was, right?
BTW- since you got rid of your home phone, did you remember to get new tags for your dogs and change the conctact info for their micro chips? I'm sure you did, but just in case.
Phollower- that's just like something BP would do. But that's probably why you two get along so well.
Of course it was a compliment.
Oh and thanks Zoe, I might have not thought of the dog tags.
If forgot about the chips and dog tags too Zoe. What a bad mother I am! Thanks for the reminder.
We're keeping our home phone number. My company gives me a cell phone that I leave at home for all the long-distance calls.
Plus we get a lot of thunderstorms and I fear head-on collisions.
or a head on collision.
How old was her son that they wouldn't call you for him?!?!
Did the medical professionals at the hospital immediately decide they hated him and wouldn't let him call her?
yummm dog chips.
Sounds delicious
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