Melissa's Place

Rogers and Surrounding Areas

I’m feeling agitated and angry.
My cable internet and phone service have been inconsistent (to say the least) for the past month and nearly non-existent for the past week. This makes it hard to book a honeymoon, transfer money from account to account to pay for a wedding, and just plain correspond with the outside world.

The good folks at Rogers have come to see us several times each week for the past month – we’ve phoned more than twenty times and spoken with supervisors about a quarter of those times. We’ve threatened to switch service providers (although I’m not convinced that Bell is a nobler cause).

On the day before our wedding, a day when I had booked nothing but being serene and calm, I had to wait for a visit from the Rogers technician. Our cable internet and phone went out again this week on Monday (then a technician came to fix it), and it went out again on Tuesday (a technician came on Wednesday to fix it), and again today (Thursday) (and a few technicians came and worked all day to bury a new line in the sweltering heat only for us to discover that we still have no service). It’s a clown show. That’s the best way to describe this ridiculous series of events.

Mark’s gone over to Delia’s to use her phone to talk to the good people at Rogers and probably at Bell after that.

As I sat here stewing on the couch, the news came on.

A bridge collapsed during rush hour yesterday in Minneapolis, killing four people and leaving at least 30 more missing. A little girl has disappeared in Quebec. A police officer was fatally run over in Unionville while on duty. A dangerous man was arrested after having killed a 70-year-old couple a few weeks ago. A senior citizen was mugged in broad day light.

I’d have to sheepishly admit that even without cable internet and phone, we’re still in pretty good shape.