Nah, white guys in trailers in Blunt County don't get
much sympathy from the drooling audience of netwrok
news.
I like getting my own back...
--- JVWatts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sounds like ya'll needed 6 On Your Side....Jamie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Benefield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "RollTideFan - University of Alabama Athletics
> Discussion List"
> <RTF@rolltidefan.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: [RollTideFan] Sunday night, Monday
> night...
>
>
> >> In fact, I was told that not only would I NEVER
> be
> >> allowed to subscribe to their ISP, I would be
> lucky
> >> if
> >> they didn't discontinue my phone service
> altogether.
> >
> > Just like that prick not to know basic Alabama
> law.
> > The PSC classifies phone service the same as
> electric
> > service; you can't deny it to anyone except for
> > reasons of non-payment without a court ruling. Of
> > course, you probably already knew that.
> >
> > My problems with them are minor in comparison. I
> had a
> > terrible connection, sometimes so bad that I
> couldn't
> > understand the conversation I was attempting to
> have.
> > I gave up trying to access anything via fax or
> modem.
> > For six months they swore that their side was just
> > fine, and that it was in my lines.
> >
> > I reinstalled everything once and checked all my
> > circuits with a fancy network gadget I borrowed
> from
> > work (all good). I told the service person the
> next
> > day what I did, and he couldn't understand how I
> would
> > check my lines without having them hooked up to
> the
> > phone lines. That was a huge red flag.
> >
> > I put a piece of scotch tape on the box outside my
> > house before I left for work the day they were
> > supposed to come check for problems again. It was
> > still there when I got home. No difference in the
> > crappy static filled signal..
> >
> > Within a week I received a bill with a $50 service
> > charge. I blew up. I called president prick like
> you
> > did, and he said that I had been asking for
> service
> > too much and that I needed to get my lines fixed
> > before I called again. We had words, but he
> rescinded
> > the $50 charge. He still wouldn't help with the
> crappy
> > signal (which he admitted he could hear during our
> > conversation).
> >
> > A week later the line was completely dead. I
> opened
> > the box myself, pulled out the part that had
> little
> > burned spots at the connections and called them
> from
> > my neigbor's WITH THE PART NUMBER! Finally, they
> came
> > out, fixed their box, and I had a good signal.
> >
> > My next bill had a $50 service charge. I sent it
> back
> > to them with a nice note telling them where they
> could
> > stick their bill and to disconnect me. The next
> day I
> > got a cellphone which costs about the same as the
> > monthly rape rate Otelco was getting and gives a
> > better signal!
> >
> > Later a friend worked in the AR dept for a while.
> She
> > was fired for stupid reasons, but they needed her
> to
> > finsh with some project. On her last day, she
> cleared
> > all of my charges.
> >
> > A couple of years ago I got my chance to get a
> little
> > more back. I was selling commercial type
> self-inking
> > stamps and had the opportunity to call on Otelco!
> They
> > bought a few date stamps and some other stuff. I
> wrote
> > up their order and overcharged them... guess....
> >
> >
> > Yes! $50!
> >
> > It was a beautiful day.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Jeff Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Otelco bought my phone service provider - Hopper
> >> Telephone, located in Walnut Grove, Alabama. I
> have
> >> no
> >> other options for land-line phone service. As
> such,
> >> back
> >> in 1998, and even until this very day, my only
> >> local-number access to the Internet was through
> >> Hopper.net.
> >>
> >> After about 1 1/2 years as [EMAIL PROTECTED] some
> >> other
> >> yahoo's and myslef waged war against the retarded
> >> banafan list boner. At about the same time, I was
> >> waging
> >> a private war with a bull-dyke in Nashville,
> >> Tennessee.
> >> Unbeknownst to myslef at the time, I was getting
> >> heavy
> >> artillery support from a forward position. When
> the
> >> smoke cleared, my hopper.net account was
> permanently
> >>
> >> terminated. A personal call to the dickhead
> Otelco
> >> President to plead my case was an exercise in
> >> futility.
> >> In fact, I was told that not only would I NEVER
> be
> >> allowed to subscribe to their ISP, I would be
> lucky
> >> if
> >> they didn't discontinue my phone service
> altogether.
> >>
> >> What's your story?
> >>
> >> Slef E.
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bryan Benefield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: "RollTideFan - University of Alabama
> Athletics
> >> Discussion List" <RTF@rolltidefan.net>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:18 PM
> >> Subject: Re: Re: [RollTideFan] Sunday night,
> Monday
> >> night...
> >>
> >>
> >> > Care to compare histories?
> >> >
> >> > Actually I'm just curious how you became
> entangled
> >> > with such a fine company as Otelco.
> >> >
> >> > Bryan
> >> > --- Jeff Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> It's not like I'm bitter, or anything.
> >> >>
> >> >> Slef E.
> >> >>
> >> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >> To: <RTF@rolltidefan.net>
> >> >> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:48 AM
> >> >> Subject: Re: Re: [RollTideFan] Sunday night,
> >> Monday
> >> >> night...
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> > Damn if *that* ain't a blast from the past!
> >> >> >
> >> >> > kurt
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> From: Jeff Todd
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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