Comcast

I've never had cable television or cable internet. Today we had Comcast install both. I didn't pay much attention to what the guy was doing outside. It seemed to me that part of the process would be easy and straightforward. He got everything installed in about an hour. Both TV's worked, the computer and the iPads were all connected to the internet. It seemed all was well. This afternoon we decided to go out and clean up the yard. Trash day is tomorrow so we thought raking leaves and picking up sticks should be the project of the day. Yes folks, even on Tybee Island work has to be done. Property maintained. Since we live in a hurricane zone there are no overhead lines to our house. Power and cable come into the yard underground. The cable main is in a green container about the size of a bathroom trash can. Since there was already a Comcast box on the house one would assume the wires were there and just needed a switch thrown or something simple. At least that was my thought process. I was seriously wrong. When we went out to work there was a cable laying on the ground running from the box along the ground between us and the neighbors. It ran on the back side of my deck and fence on the far side of some small trees and large bushes. Then it ran across my deck to the box on the house. The thing that bothered me was the groove between the fence and the deck and between the two levels of the deck would have completely hidden the wire. Because the cable guy chose not to do that we had to figure out how to lift the cable 12 feet into the air over the trees and bushes and fence. Trees and bushes that had thorns. It took an hour but we relocated the cable. The moral of the story? Assume nothing aside from this, the cable guy is an idiot. He cannot work unsupervised. The cable company is a monopoly and could gave less than a shit if you are happy with them or their installer, who is by the way not their employee. He is a contract worker.

Until you live in the south you cannot truly appreciate the work ethic down here. Nothing is done in a hurry. Everything else is done at a snail's pace. On a positive note they can take a pile of parts and make some kind of working vehicle out of that junk. Just be prepared to wait a long time.