a tale of two women ...and, yes, a dog photo

our timewarner
dvr box
 had been
 acting wonky

it didnt record
a football bowl game
sunday

 monday 
toonman
 schlepped up to 90th street
 in the freezing cold
 to get a replacement 

he called me when he got home
 he had bad news
 and
 terrible news

 i opted for terrible

 the 'new' dvr box
 was
dead
 not working 
completely useless

 the bad news:
earliest repair appointment
was
friday

 oh yeah 
there was good news
we were on
the
priority list

 tuesday evening
 we got
 an automated call
 from
 timewarner 
confirming
 our
 monday appointment

 monday? 
what happened to friday?

 wednesday
at the office
i got
another
automated appointment
confirmation
on
my mobile
it cut off
mid-call
so 
i called them back

 i got a rep named
 desiree 
who was
 so so sorry

 she listened 
to my tale of woe
 uttered
 apologetic
 appropriate
remarks 
promised
 not once
 but 
several times
 to
 look into it
 to
personally
 get back to me

after i hung up
i said outloud
i wont hold my breath

 thursday
 i took to social media
 i tweeted
 i facebooked
 i whined

 a friend who readed my facebook post
 texted 
he thought
 he might be able to help
 he offered
 a name and a contact # at timewarner

 i called 
i spoke to another woman 
who listened
 who apologized
 who said 
she would see what could be done

she took our home #
she
 not
 only
called back
once 
she called back 3 times

she
got us a repair appointment
for
 friday afternoon
because
 she heard 
toonman 
was looking forward
 to watching a football game
 on
 saturday afternoon 

its people like her 
who help me 
remember
 how good customer service can be 
when
 there's actually someone who cares about the customer

oh
the repair guy showed up 20 minutes late but he showed
the problem?
the new box has a different setting for HDMI then the old one
it was a simple matter of changing a setting
DOH


totally unrelated to the above
this is
a french bulldog appropriately named
coco chanel