Deena, they're doing you a little favor. And one day, maybe, they'll need a little favor from you.

In today's episode, I broke down and called the cable company and asked them how much it would cost to have someone out to fix it. Since the power button won't even come on now, they aren't going to fix it, they're going to replace it. For free. I asked him if he heard me say my daughter spit the contents of her sippy cup into it. He said yes. Free. Within the next half hour to 45 minutes. I'm flabbergasted. I will never say bad things about my cable company again.

If it's Time Warner, like mine, you pay a rental for the DVR. So it's technically their machine, which they want to continue getting the rental fee from you. It's in their best interest to replace it.

Although, I'm REALLY glad I have shields on our DVR and DVD players. And the shelves they are on are so narrow that the shields prevent any little hands from getting to them.

t knocks on wood

Yay for free new DVR! Huzzah!

When I'm over, she frequently feel that the one person she wants to talk to is there.

Awwwwwwwww.

I need to stop answering my phone. Even when it's someone I like, I hate the phone, and talking on it makes me irritable. (And I have caller ID, so it's not like I even have an excuse.)

Unless we have a show running, I only pick up the home phone for Z. Everyone else either calls my cell or has to leave a message. I am supremely lazy about talking on the phone.

We're getting digital phone service soon which will include caller ID. I can't wait.

I hate to not answer the phone, but then I get pissy when it's a wrong number or a collect call from an inmate from the county jail. Yes, this happens more often than you think.

I'll leave the ringer off on my phone for days and days and day. In fact, it is off 95% of the time. Partly an occupational decision, partly a desire to listen to the message before I chat. I'm spoilery that way.

Friends get a bit peeved when I call right back and ask...what does your message say? Friendship hazard I guess.

Deena, they're doing you a little favor. And one day, maybe, they'll need a little favor from you.

Emily, you just made me laugh. And then I shivered.

Cash, it's true that it's rented and really belongs to them, but man, if I rented a piece of expensive equipment out to someone, I'd damn well want them to replace it if they fried it completely. I wonder if they have insurance on them?

This evening? We're buying the damned entertainment center we can't really afford that puts the components behind glass AND on top of the TV.

Since I have about 20 resumes floating about all hopeful like, I'm much more inclined to run to the phone these days.

My number's unlisted, so I don't get a whole lot of sales calls.

if I rented a piece of expensive equipment out to someone, I'd damn well want them to replace it if they fried it completely. I wonder if they have insurance on them?

They probably, do. Or else they can take it back and fix it and give it to someone else. I'm sure the actual device ends up being not so expensive when you're producing hundreds of thousands of them. If they can sell DVD players for $50 now, I wonder what it costs to produce one?