Quick funny story .............and not 1 ounce of exaggeration for comedic enhancement.......
My second Black box came today ! The Cable window lady with her 2 kids in tow and a technician to install it !
The woman and the 2 Kids jump out of the passenger side and the techie Crawls FEET First out the drivers side window. You know those low small toyota trucks with the Van back....
I quickly set the TV up in my bedroom and they started to install !
Well Blah Blah Blah and about 6 or 8 phone calls to cable central and NOTHING ! LOL
I am quietly watching. the guy realizes that he didn't connect the cable. The woman explains that he is new and from Sosua ........ but............
Still nothing the screen reads that the box is deactivated
They get another Black box from the truck..........Hook it all up , this time remembering to connect the cable......
Nothing.
they call "centrale" , he is YELLING the numbers in Spanish to a guy on the other end...........
Nothing , the screen still reads that the box is deactivated"
They start to check everything again and then they go to my living room television .They test everything and it seems fine
except.............. now It also stopped working...........worked fine in the A . M.
6 or 8 more calls to the Cable God and still nothing..
Well by now one of her kids about 2 years old is frantic and I see him bite his mothers elbow.she yells something in Spanish ......... She heads outside
and the techie stares at my Television. He checks all the connections
Says something in Spanish which I think included "Cono Caja Negro....... "
He says something else in Spanish , walks out the door and goes ASS First back through the drivers side window........And they all drive off.............
About 10 minutes later another cable guy is going by and I wave him down. He was cool calm and collected. he came in , fiddled with some wires
jiggled a few things then went out, climbed the pole came back in and
Nothing. We are talking about my living room television. I finally get through to him with my Spinglish that there is another in the bedroom which the other techie tried to install
He said there is a problem with the cable and would be back in the afternoon with a new one..........
Nothing.........
That's why I have time to write this long letter !
2 Cable Visits after waiting 10 days for a Black Box, (When I was told it would be at around 10:00 On Saturday, April 1st ) and Now
neither one of the televisions work .
Ya know?, a year ago I woulda been pulling my hair out and seeing whose head I could roll ! . ...........Man have I come down a few notches....... Imagine a night without television !
Instead I Smiled and looked at the guy as he left and simply said
"Gracias , Hasta Manana ! "
Went to the Colmado and Bought a Grande for 50 Pesos and sat on the galleria and watched people walk by and smiled ......
Can't say that I am full Dominicanized yet....but I think I am making strides towards being assimilated ! !
My second Black box came today ! The Cable window lady with her 2 kids in tow and a technician to install it !
The woman and the 2 Kids jump out of the passenger side and the techie Crawls FEET First out the drivers side window. You know those low small toyota trucks with the Van back....
I quickly set the TV up in my bedroom and they started to install !
Well Blah Blah Blah and about 6 or 8 phone calls to cable central and NOTHING ! LOL
I am quietly watching. the guy realizes that he didn't connect the cable. The woman explains that he is new and from Sosua ........ but............
Still nothing the screen reads that the box is deactivated
They get another Black box from the truck..........Hook it all up , this time remembering to connect the cable......
Nothing.
they call "centrale" , he is YELLING the numbers in Spanish to a guy on the other end...........
Nothing , the screen still reads that the box is deactivated"
They start to check everything again and then they go to my living room television .They test everything and it seems fine
except.............. now It also stopped working...........worked fine in the A . M.
6 or 8 more calls to the Cable God and still nothing..
Well by now one of her kids about 2 years old is frantic and I see him bite his mothers elbow.she yells something in Spanish ......... She heads outside
and the techie stares at my Television. He checks all the connections
Says something in Spanish which I think included "Cono Caja Negro....... "
He says something else in Spanish , walks out the door and goes ASS First back through the drivers side window........And they all drive off.............
About 10 minutes later another cable guy is going by and I wave him down. He was cool calm and collected. he came in , fiddled with some wires
jiggled a few things then went out, climbed the pole came back in and
Nothing. We are talking about my living room television. I finally get through to him with my Spinglish that there is another in the bedroom which the other techie tried to install
He said there is a problem with the cable and would be back in the afternoon with a new one..........
Nothing.........
That's why I have time to write this long letter !
2 Cable Visits after waiting 10 days for a Black Box, (When I was told it would be at around 10:00 On Saturday, April 1st ) and Now
neither one of the televisions work .
Ya know?, a year ago I woulda been pulling my hair out and seeing whose head I could roll ! . ...........Man have I come down a few notches....... Imagine a night without television !
Instead I Smiled and looked at the guy as he left and simply said
"Gracias , Hasta Manana ! "
Went to the Colmado and Bought a Grande for 50 Pesos and sat on the galleria and watched people walk by and smiled ......
Can't say that I am full Dominicanized yet....but I think I am making strides towards being assimilated ! !