The Elusive High Speed Internet

Verizon had been sending us invitations to sign up for their high speed internet connection for months and I hadn’t called to inquire whether the service was available to our home in years so I decided to give it another try….

The guy, Paul, who got my call was great. I enjoyed hearing about his life atop a mountain up in Pennsylvania. Sounded similar to our life less the 10,000 cars passing by every day.

I explained to Paul several times that we had tried before only to discover that despite what his computer was telling him that the service was actually not available at our house. He assured me it was so I went ahead and signed up. Cautiously I told Kathy that we might be in luck, that Verizon was coming the following Wednesday to install high speed internet for a fraction of what we pay DirecWay for our satellite connection. I remained skeptical and didn’t have my hopes very high, but when the package arrived with all of the gadgetry to hook us up it appeared we might finally be on the internet highway at last.

Finally, the call came. Late Tuesday just hours before we were prepared to celebrate our arrival into the modern era Verizon called and left an AUTOMATED message telling us that the service was NOT available at our house! Aarrgghh! Being a male, the fact that what I had told Paul at Verizon was correct, helped to ease the pain of learning once again that our not-so-high speed internet connection would have to do for another while.