Friday, August 08, 2008

Um, I don't have a TV

As part of getting all the utilities set up in the new house, I called the cable company to get an internet connection. I finished scheduling the appointment for the technician to come get it installed, and the girl on the phone asked why we weren't also getting cable TV installed. I replied that it was because we don't have a television. She started going into a sales pitch. "It's only $9.99 a month if you get it bundled with the internet, and we could get it installed at the same time without an extra installation fee."

"Yeah, I may have mentioned this before, but we don't have a television."

"You could order it now and cancel it at any time if you decide you don't want it."

"We don't have a television. It wouldn't be any use to us."

If I were a little more creative, we could have had some fun with that. Sarah suggested "Does it come with a free television?" Or how about "Can we watch it directly through the cable outlet?" Or "We already get cable, we have a wire running over from the neighbor's house."