That's exactly how it felt! The only things missing were
Fred & Wilma. For three and a half days I was part of the modern Stone Age
family without a phone, TV, or internet!
And worse I had surgery coming up and no way to
contact the doctor's office or vise versa should an emergency arise. But thanks
to my friend Marie dropping over the day before and lending me her cellphone I
was able to learn (in time) that my surgery had been rescheduled!
I was grateful that at least I still had electricity! Power
outages are far more common than they should be where I live. So there was a
bright side. I could work offline on my latest novel without telemarketers
constantly interrupting me. -- No I never answer, but I have to get up and
listen to my answering machine in case it's someone I actually want to speak
to, or an emergency.
Due to posterior vitreous detachment following cataract
surgery I have eye floaters of all varieties: big black ones, small brown ones,
and gel ones too, along with light flashes. Working on the computer AFTER DARK
has become too much of a strain as is reading.
Thankfully I'd been gifted with a DVD player by my friend
Rose when my beloved Starz-Showtime package became too pricey for me. For
several years now I've been collecting DVDs for emergencies such as this one.
Since I could count on being without for at least three days
I chose the multi-pack selection of horror movies I'd purchased from a church
rummage sale. Four movies were on each of the three disks. I'd already seen
half of these 1970's flicks and the six remaining were cheesy and lame. I felt
my brain rotting. One was so bad that I fast-forwarded thru the entire second
half.
I was thrilled when the ATT truck arrived early on the
fourth day! -- I had no idea it was fated to be a stressful and long one.
To make a long story short, the tech replaced my ancient
modem and got my phone and computer working. However my two TVs kept freezing. The
man couldn't understand why and called another tech over. The two tried all
types of maneuvers, but to no avail. They gave up and left, but assured me
another tech would be arriving.
An hour later, another arrived and was equally mystified! He made numerous calls to ATT. Eventually he
told me not to worry because he had the "Big Dogs" on the line and
this problem was going to be solved. The problem was on their end!!! Around
4:00 PM this was fixed. --At LONG last!!!
Once again I had a toe in the 21st century.
