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June 5, 2007
Verizon Sux Donkey Dick to the Nth Degree
As we all know, Verizon Sux Donkey Dick in the greatest way possible, from their coldly impersonal computerized voice recognition "customer service" line to their annoying habit of asking you to stay home all day to wait for them, and then they don't show up. I once had to flag down a Verizon service truck off the street at random and beg for help. Verizon, your contempt for your customers will come back to haunt you some day.
Although the last time I recall they did show up right quick in the morning, at the exact same time as the plumber, and the phone jack was on the other side of the wall from the toilet, so it was a bit of a scene.
I had my first night of my Financial Management for Managers or somesuch class last night. Let's just say I didn't do well in my Resource Management, Calculus or Trigonometry classes back in undergrad. And all you math enthusiasts STFU, we've heard it already about how it's so easy blah blah blah. I'm 36 and math is still hard, and no amount of wishing it were easy won't help. Anyway, there were no hotties in the class to distract me, but it would help if the professor didn't have the most soothing voice in the region. He's got this cool smooth jazz voice that tranquilizes me with a word. Not a good thing in a boring number crunching class.
Blast from the past - think Siberian steppe if you are feeling warm and humid this summer:
That's Laura at right, out in our backyard in Kazakstan. Like someone said, it was so flat that you could stand on a beer can and see Moscow. And it was frikkin' cold.
*Is 'deificance' really a word? I don't know, I just constructed the word together because I needed a word like that. 'Deificance' means to act like a deity, or god. For example, "Kylie Minogue was absolutely fabulous in her pop deificance at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony."
Posted by jimbo at June 5, 2007 1:13 PM
Comments
35? Jimbo, you're 36. Own it!
>>>Jimbo: Jeez, it's just a slip! I do own 36!
Posted by: durban bud at June 5, 2007 3:20 PM
Hey Jimbo, I can empathize. Everyone assumes I must be good at math but I had to work my ass off to keep up in my engineering undergrad.
Yes, Verizon sux donkey dick but not as badly as Comcast. I cannot wait until this fall when I can order Fios TV and tell Comcast where to go.
Posted by: Crumble at June 5, 2007 5:42 PM
That's an awesome pic. What were you there for?
Posted by: Patrick at June 6, 2007 3:30 PM
Ugh. I hate them all. AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, AOL, Citibank, Sunt Rust, just about every big company in America. There's something about those companies combined with the service par excellence you get in the Washington Area (SMIRK), it's like a fresh newly-discovered hell.
Someday I'd like to call them up and say "If you wish to whack the president of the company in the face with a shovel, press 1 now."
Posted by: Mike at June 6, 2007 7:56 PM
I'm assuming that Verizon provides land line service in DC, cuz I know how much you hate cell phones . . .
Posted by: jeremy at June 7, 2007 3:36 AM