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[igpayatinlay]

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World's rudest DirectTV man, at our house right now. He came two and a half hours before his scheduled time and is now crashing through the house, stomping around while practically running through the place, throwing open doors so hard they bang into walls, knocking shit over, tracking mud around, and drilling holes in the walls and floor, telling my mother "No, we don't guarantee any of our work, you should buy the insurance package, then you don't have to pay if we have to come out again." We had to take everything out of my closet (a hope chest and two big Rubbermaid tubs and all my clothes) and stack it by my bed so he can get to the crawl space under the house, and he's acting all put-out that it took ten minutes. This man is the definition of boorish.

Violet would be aghast right now. I need to possess Maggie Smith's face.


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UTTERLY UNRELATED but not really worthy of posting twice in one afternoon - DTW people:

• Would anyone happen to have the muse for a wife/mother of the Pureblood variety, somewhere in the 26-32 range, for a non-DE-still-Walpurgis newsman with the PB of Rupert Penry-Jones for your hubby and 2-3 daughters, with a son in a year or two?
• Does anyone with a Pureblood family need a sister, 23-27?
• So, I have all these ideas for Rosmerta, but no connections for her. I want her to be a Halfblood Hufflepuff ~31-ish, but I wouldn't mind a cousin or sibling, possibly a gentleman friend? War widow, no children; Order friendly though she tries to appear neutral to keep the Three Broomsticks friendly enough for anyone to frequent. Reads a lot, very kind/jovial/good-natured, absolutely spectacular bosoms.

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[ganguly.insanejournal.com]

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[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

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[chthonian.insanejournal.com]

:[ I hate it when workers like that are asses, argh. We had the best fucking cable guy in the world to set ours up, and he was a treasure. (He brought a six-pack of beer for our superintendent to apologise/make up for the fact that he had to come as early as 8am!!! TRUE STORY.)

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

It was so strange! I don't think of myself as a quiet person, but I was interneting in my dad's room because it was SO crazy crash bang, everywhere else in the house. It was completely overwhelming for whatever strange reason; yours sounds far better.

[droa.insanejournal.com]

Can you call the customer service line and complain? Because seriously, you are paying this dude for his service, and that is unacceptable behavior on his end.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

It's over with now. They do an automated call review thing by phone, afterwards. My mother kept thinking oh hey, there will be a person I can talk to at the end, and there wasn't; they just asked like, is it functioning, did they set up your remote. The closest question was "Was your house left as neat as before they arrived?" and she chose no. :-\

[mightydrea.insanejournal.com]

I agree with droa - complain. We had bad service with an ATT Uverse guy - on the day we moved in. He was SUPPOSED to be there at a certain time, we saw him circle the neighborhood twice but didn't really think anything of it, then he came an hour late, and walked in - told us he couldn't do the cable set up because WE didn't get the right optical box BEFORE he came. Then he left.

That was it.

So we called and Matt talked to the guy's supervisor and the supervisor told us he was supposed to bring the hardware to set up and then sent a guy out that night who installed everything, was very friendly, and did it all for free. If they're a good company (I've never dealt with Direct TV customer service) they will do SOMETHING, at least.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

Eh, it's functioning now, and my closet is back together. My mom said she might write an e-mail though; I think maybe I was more adverse to him because I got woken up early after 5 hours of sleep to get up, get dressed, and help haul all the contents of my closet out. It was just v. bizarre, because our house is usually quiet; nobody stomps about or slams doors or anything?

[macguffin.insanejournal.com]

jfkdls I didn't even know that people like that existed outside of cartoons.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

I'd write him as a really radical rp character but I would have NO idea what his motivations would be; I'd be utterly confused as to why someone would go crashing through another person's house rather than treating it with more respect than their own.

[macguffin.insanejournal.com]

He has no motivations. He is a meaningless force of chaos, like the Joker. I'll bet if you phone the company now they'll claim they've never hired someone by that name.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

Phantom!Installman for the super villain name?

[macguffin.insanejournal.com]

YES. Played by John Goodman in the movie. I was going to think of someone to cast in the inevitable prequel, but the Phantom Installman has no past so that would be impossible.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

And everyone knows he gets electrocuted at the end of the movie, so there's no hope for sequel casting either. But you've made the right choice, when it counted.

[dramatism.insanejournal.com]

Sirius approves of Rosmerta's absolutely SPECTACULAR bosoms. He'll have her know, she was his first true love.

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

I imagine she's spent half a decade having good fun with this and flirts and banters and leans over often to amuse herself with the look on his face!

[borntorun.insanejournal.com]

I bet Andrea & I could find somewhere for a cousin for Anne & Jack Jones if you want! I hadn't made any extended family at all (aside from Megan).

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

I would love that, if you're both okay with it! ♥ Should she be a Jones then, or a maiden-name cousin?

[borntorun.insanejournal.com]

Doesn't matter to me! :) I didn't pick a maiden name for their mom. The only thing is the parents were poor and the kids grew up without too much, so! Yeah. :)

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

If I'm looking at Jack's application; their father was a Muggleborn, so unless it was like the Creevy bros., and there were two Muggleborns in one family (which could be) it might have been maternal? I'll hold off for a few hours until the party winds down and Andrea's around to poke.

[borntorun.insanejournal.com]

Ha, totally forgot about that. Maternal is ok with me!
I emailed Andrea w/ a heads-up too.