All of my school is done, the last paper that I did for evolution got an 83 percent, and school begins anew in September. Wooh.
Today, I called Cogeco and cancelled the shoddy, friggen expensive cable that I had for less than a month (cost me 75 dollars, basically what I was paying minus about 10$ for the cable each month because I broke the contract). I had originally wanted to add HBO on as a separate channel (True Blood, you know). Unfortunately, because I live in Canada and we get screwed all of the time, I couldn't add it as one channel (eg: $2.50 a month for the channel as an extra). Instead they expected me to buy the WHOLE MOVIE CHANNEL PACKAGE, an extra twenty dollars. No, thank you. I have the internet, therefore every movie I have ever wanted to see.
Ever.
Including new ones, Japanese sub films, indie films, high school communications classes' films....
Ever.
They offered me the chance to look into some "deals" so that I could get HBO for a better price. I declined.
All in all, cable television has gone downhill since I was a kid and watched television. Now, there are stupid reality shows, like rat b*stards, which I haven't understood the reason for killing the muskrats yet:
Teen Mom, something that no one should have made to be popular, lest we find ALL thirteen year old girls trying to get knocked up, or tattooed, or I don't even know because I wasn't raised like that:
and Jersey Shore, which is so ridiculous that it brooks no explanation, with its idiotic cast catapulted into great fame for... whatever they do...
-- all of which disgust me. Reality is all around me, I do not need it on the television that's supposed to be keeping me avoiding it.
Furthermore, even as I watched things like Criminal Minds- one of the few crime shows that amuses me after CSI started expanding to NY and Miami and Grissom left- the cable would jump, as if it were lagging and had to catch up to the signal, so I would lose four seconds of the show, three or four times in a half hour of programming. That's unacceptable to pay 58$ a month for.
When I said that I would be looking into dropping the internet also, the woman became quite snobby and added "Well, you realize that you'd be breaking your contract as you have a special rate until next June, 2013, so you'll have to pay extra for that as well?"
Keep in mind that my bill is consistently 150$ or more before cable was added to it, and have had it since 2009.
So I dropped the Cable, and paid the money, and decided that as soon as I pay off the entirety of the next Cogeco bill, I am switching to Nexicom, even if I have to pay an extra ten dollars a month for internet.
I also called the Swiffer company to complain about the broken Swiffer that was leaking entire bottles of cleaner on to my floor when I wasn't using it.
(Here you can kind of see the liquid that has leaked out of the Swiffer all over the floor)
(Small Lake in, under and around the Swiffer pad, you can see the bubbles)
That's the Procter and Gamble company. They were very helpful in dealing with the issue, and I will most likely be happy to deal with them in the future. Furthermore, there's a warranty on the item for a year, so they said that they'd send me a coupon for a new Swiffer Wet Jet that
isn't broken within three weeks! If only every company were like Procter and Gamble. We'd have happier customers all around!
