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Wednesday, March 13, 2002
My gay porn phone god
So, my jovial telco pals actually fucked up the phone service even worse, leaving us with our upstairs neighbor's phone number. She called Verizon yesterday morning to complain, and a tech was dispatched. The tech looked like a porn star. He frightened me a little bit, but he was a TELECOMMUNICATIONS WIZARD. Technician 256 (aka Ryan) informed me that the previous techs had realized that the wiring to the building was totally buggered, but rather than fixing it, they just looped our line in with our neighbor's line, showed me there was a dialtone, patted themselves on the back, and left. Turns out Verizon will have to rewire the whole building and run new cables out over the church behind us and up the block to a telephone pole 400 feet away. In the meantime, Ryan has filed a complaint against the cheating technicians and we have temporary phone service. WHOOT. Ryan is my gay porn phone god.