A Place To Space

I just opened up two ( because one just isn't enough ) mailings from our phone company.

They announced, with great fanfare, that I could "upgrade" to digital phone service for only $25.00 more a month!

Wow! That's incredible! For 50% more than what I'm paying now, I can get service that doesn't work during power and network outages, and has poorer fidelity than my Plain Old Telephone Service!

Gee, give me a second, I'm going to have to think about this...

Rich: I'd like to convert from the budget-billing plan back to actual billing.

Rep: May I ask why? Budget billing is so convenient and predictable!

Rich: Because the budget billing isn't even remotely close to reflecting our usage over the year.

Rep: Oh, I'm sure that can't be correct. Let me look.

( long pause )

Rich: Looking at our past usage, the credit from the budget billing will completely cover our gas&electric for about the next five or six months.

Rep: I'm sure that the amounts will be adjusted in August, when your usages will be recalculated...

I should probably be worried when the people who supply explosive gases and electricity to our house apparently haven't figured out how to compute an average...

I just heard someone banging at the front door of the house. Thinking it was the UPS guy, I went upstairs, only to find this.

Too bad he wandered away before I could get the camera.