Does your home telephone work well during the daytime? Mine does not.
For years people have been telling me this but I did not believe them, as I was always able to make calls. Yet there are many I do not receive and at last I believe it.
During the day the Internet is also very unreliable and this corresponds to the unreliability of the telephone.
BellSouth and AT&T, the relevant companies, insist on telling me – from the Philippines, of course, which is where you talk to them – that everything is perfect. They have even sent Louisiana people to the house, from the Philippines, to make sure. Officially everything is perfect and I have the most preferential service, the greatest bandwidth, and so on.
Yet the telephone does not work reliably during the day, nor does the Internet. And a friend in New Orleans now says the same.
Do you have this problem? If I said I were a business, and not a residential customer, would I have the opposite problem? Did this problem exist before the privatization of telephones in the eighties?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
The minute this post went up my cell phone also went into rebellion. All my phones are haunted, or something!
Yeah, well I had a certain neediness that went along with my sincere genuineness and openness. So it was that whot undid me. It was like: “I’m a migrant! Please, kind sirs accept me, so that I might then accept myself!” (I’m in a Jane Austen mood, from seeing some last night — although I can’t quite convey it in this mode of language….) So that was a real problem in my need to be needed.
Actually I think its normal and human to want to be needed — ie. to be part of a society, a community. Yet narcissists do not like that which is human, and we live in a narcissitic society, that will exploit need as weakness. It’s a little harder for them to exploit simple sincerity as weakness, but given prime opportunity and an urge to feed, they can do that too.
🙂
On that neediness – the conversation comes from another thread but oh well – I wonder whether I have it too, to some degree. “Please tell me you agree I am not crazy, so that I will not think I am crazy.”
Sorry — I was doing random experiments here and there to see if I could post it (as it was being “discarded”).
Please tell me you agree I am not crazy, so that I will not think I am crazy.”
It’s human (that attitude). But it should be minimised in an environment that isn’t.
Yes – one doesn’t want reality checks from people (or machines) one shouldn’t trust!
I think Askimet did that to your comments because one of them had two links in them. That makes Askimet suspicious… it calls this “discarding” ???
when the phone quit working, i decided i’d rather just do without
than deal with trying to get it fixed. finally broke down and got
a cel after a month or so, though. mostly to my embarrassed regret.
nobody seems to want to admit it but the closely-regulated monopoly
actually *worked*; nowadays you need a team of fucking attorneys
just to *fire* the son-of-a-bitches when they quit providing any service.
i’m so through with this god-damn culture i can’t even begin to tell you.
thanks for asking.
your “what is a scholar” series is inspiring. what means “Axé”?
Hi! You know the cells don’t work very well either – nor does my ISP. They keep saying to buy a higher level of service, then it will work, but it only works for a little while. I am very tempted to just cut it all off at home and do all communication by U.S. mail or at public computers I don’t pay for the service on (or only pay while I am using them and they are working).
What is a scholar? THANKS! Detractors IRL keep telling me I’m not a productive enough scholar and have no right to be writing that … but I want to write it up into something for paper publication which would of course be “productive” …
Axé = strength, grace, health, and swing … it’s a sort of blessing in Yoruban based religions … 😉
I finally found out I was right – it was the wiring from the street. This I know because Hurricane Gustav finished it off, so it had to be repaired. It was repaired correctly, and it worked.
The Internet issue is that my house needs rewiring, explained the phone worker. The electricity blinks and it upsets the modem.
I finally found out I was right – it was the wiring from the street. This I know because Hurricane Gustav finished it off, so it had to be repaired. It was repaired correctly, and it worked.
The Internet issue is that my house needs rewiring, explained the phone worker. The electricity blinks and it upsets the modem.