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To: maceng2 who wrote (771)	5/12/2005 8:34:09 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1417

I've been soooooooo pissed off with my internet provider. Huge bills and lousy service. Really. It got on my goat so much I decided to do something about it. Before I could change though, my internet connection got lost altogether. Really fuming I rang up the help line and after a lot of farking about with button selections got in touch with technical help. (female Indian accent with USA twang) "Can I help you sir"? we went through a whole load of puter procedures and it turned out my puter was the problem, and problem was fixed. Excellent. "Where you from?" I asked. "India" was the reply. "Thank you for your help, good job, and have a good day" I said. "Thank you sir". I then went on to change my supplier. I had to rent a line from BT (much hated by me since the 1980's) but it would half my bill when I went to the new internet supplier with all phone calls free. The phone rang. (South African accent) "I can't believe your going to leave us (cable company) what could we do to prevent your going?" "Where are you from"? "Pretoria" "Are you black or white?" "white" "Do they pay you OK"? "yes they do" "Well my bills are twice what they should be, and I'm also going to get a broad band connection twice as fast. No farking way will I stay with you guys". "Oh no, please don't leave us!" "Fark you, and all the wilderbeasts you rode in on" "If you stay with us we will lower your bill to below what out competitor is offering, and quadrouple your broadband connection." "Really"? "yes" "Ok you gotta deal" "thanks, no need to do anything more, I will cancel all your applications to change service." "and thank you sir" Just goes to show, it's best to shop around.