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Well, I just canceled cable TV. At first the plan was to downgrade to limited basic cable, because most of the shows I have been watching lately are available publicly. Paying $80 a month for this seemed a bit crazy to me.

So Chad, why do you need cable at all if everything is publicly available?

Good question! Unfortunately we are unable to receive NBC’s signal in the City. The station is all the way down in San Jose and they don’t feel it’s worth the money to fix the problem. At this moment I’m addicted to Scrubs, Heroes, and now My Name is Earl (Thanks Dale!) which are all on NBC. Thus the need for a cable feed, and limited basic should do the trick.

Anyway, when I told the operator what I waned to do she responded with:

No problem, we can downgrade your account. We’ll need to send out a Comcast employee to put a filter on your line to limit the channels you receive. This will be a $10.99 service charge to you.

My reply:

Umm, wait minute. You want to charge me $11 to put a filter on my line? Don’t you think it’s a bit odd that I have to pay a fee for you to limit my channels? This has no benefit to me only to Comcast. Why should I have to pay for this?

Of course she side steeped the question and asked me if I wanted to see if they could come up a special deal which wouldn’t require me to downgrade to limited basic. At that point, I stated:

Look, if you are unable to drop that charge then lets just cancel cable all together. I’ll just watch DVDs from Netflix.

And there you have it, a classic West move. When you are not happy with something silly like an $11 charge, go to the extreme and tell ‘em off! Funny thing is, this didn’t phase her in the least. I’m guessing this is a typical response.

Hell it’ll keep my ass of the couch and I’ll be saving a bunch of money in the months to come… Right?!

Damn! What’s going to happen to the cheerleader?!

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