Well today started off badly. I had an appointment to have my internet and tv upgraded with Telus. You see…since the first day Shaw hooked me up to this new digital box, I have NOT been amused. I mean, I am thankful that they rewired this old house for free, because my picture freaking sucked with the 40 year old wire…but nothing else has impressed me. Nothing.
So the other day in the mail I get an advertisement from Telus that I can get PVR, whatever the hell that is…and 140 channels, for a steal of a price. I already have my phone and internet with them, so why not right? Plus they are going to save me $30 a month to have everything with them, and like I said 140 channels. I have about 20 now, 60% of which I hate. My internet will be faster, and cheaper…all good right?
So the dude is supposed to be here between 10-12 o’clock…
Let me just clarify here, my boyfriend Bill…works for Telus in Vancouver, so I know how this is supposed to work. I have a baby clue that they should call me, they should give me an approximate time when they are gonna get here. I mean seriously, I have two days off, and this is going to take up nearly a whole day of that time.
I get up at 8 am, figuring this is more than enough time for me to surf my morning blogs and facebook, have a coffee and a shower, so the poor guy isn’t terrified when he gets here.
By 10 am I am ready to face the world.
I wait…
and wait…
I make Pavlova, which turned out like this…there will be more pictures to follow once the fruit and whipped cream get thrown on it :)
It’s made from egg whites and sugar…ya, so much for my freaking diet, but we are having an Chick and Brat party tonight…we are eating Pavlova, and probably drinking too much.
So anyways…Pavlova finished off…
I then move on to the potato salad. I love potato salad…my diet is off for the day. Just so we are clear. I am not counting my calories AT all today, I will start over again in the morning.
So at 12:10 or so, I text Bill and say “should I be getting annoyed by now that he hasn’t even called?” I know that this isn’t the normal way it is done, and I should have at least had some contact by now.
I wait some more.
The phone rings at about 12:30. It is a girl from Telus. She asks me if I want to rebook my appointment for another time.
I am like what????
I tell her that I am, as we speak… sitting here waiting for the tech to show up. I have been waiting since 10 oclock.
She says that he called and told dispatch he couldn’t make contact with me, so he isn’t coming today and I would need to rebook.
Now…
I am a patient woman. Most of the time.
But I am barely maintaining. I tell her, that I have been home all day. She is in fact the first one to contact me in any way, other than the fedex guy who delivered my contacts at 11.
I have been home. Not on the phone, not locked in the dungeon where I can’t hear anything, but home. On my couch. Waiting.
She once again says the tech has called in saying he can’t make contact with me.
I know it is not the girls fault. I tell her that. I also tell her I am pissed. I explain the time off thing. I don’t have much. I value it.
And I call absolute BULLSHIT on the Tech.
I have been here, and totally available.
I have also had no internet since 9 am…so something has been done, and I would like it finished by the end of the day. I don’t want to reschedule. I don’t have time for that.
She puts me on hold while she talks to her supervisor, I take a breath and calm down, I need this girl on my side and freaking out won’t help my case here, this I know. When she comes back on the line, I tell her again I know that none of this is her fault, I double check the address, we wonder did he go to the right address?? Um, ya…he had it. She kept telling me she didn’t know if she could get him to come back, I kept correcting her that he was never THERE in the first place. We laugh.
I say he better be fucking cute if and when he gets here, because he has already thoroughly pissed me off.
She then says she will do everything she can to make sure he gets here today, and she says, she has put in a note with the manager…good…
Unbelievably he shows up, I kid you not, about an hour later. SURPRISE!!! I really didn’t think he was going to show at all.
Well he wasn’t cute, but it is done now…I am happy with everything, I think I even understand how to work the remote, thanks to 6 months of swearing at the Shaw remote.
So now, it is 3:45…day is pretty much gone, I am waiting on the Chicks and Brats to start our little soiree…it’s gonna be fun, and there are gonna be pictures…ttfn friends!!!
