dgp
...the last land line problem I had was a no dial tone thingy. I reported it three times and all three times they tested it, saw no trouble and closed the ticket without making contact with me. I drove up to the local telephone bldg and walked into a second levels office unannounced and told him what had happened. He made a call and got a dispatch pretty soon after that and they fixed the problem. The drop had one of them round balls that is used to splice em together and when it got warm, the contacts went open. They replaced the drop. I remember a time when the trouble wasn't fixed until the customer said it was fixed./

Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!