No, actually it's easier to catch flies with chunks of dead meat, but who cares? We folk who present as female, we women, have been getting told to play nice forever. And you know what playing nice usually gets you? A label on your forehead that screams DOOR MAT and your questions or problems ignored.
Actually, I shouldn't suggest the being ignored is tied solely to gender. It happens to dudes, too. We had problems with our internet service provider (ISP) for months. The S.O. called the company multiple times, left numerous messages, and never got any call backs or an on-site visit. So then I made an in-person visit to the ISP's office. What do you know? Apparently it takes a blue hair getting truly bitchy to get people to pay attention. After a couple months of "someone will call you back" and not ever getting a call back, we suddenly had multiple trucks parked in the yard as the internet specialist and phone company linemen tried to figure out just what was causing the poor connections.
They never did figure it out except to conclude the line is obsolete, but at least they came up and tried. Would they have ever done that if we'd stuck to the polite phone calls? Somehow I doubt it.
I did kind of a verbal NDA at yesterday's tribal council meeting so it wouldn't be ethical to go into any specific details other than to say a major issue appears to be on its way to a solution. I will, however, say that if one more person locally tells me that a person I characterized as an asshat (and, yes, I know, it's not particularly dignified for an old lady to use the same descriptors as a character on "South Park") is actually a really, really nice guy I'm going to turn hyperbolic and remind them that's what Ann Rule once said about Ted Bundy. Or, for that matter, to use a local example, what the people who attended church in South Range said about David Goodreau before they found out he'd murdered two women and was caught while targeting a third victim. None of us has any way of knowing if the people we know behave the same way when you're not around that they do when you're right in front of them. They may not all be serial killers, but they can sure as heck be asshats occasionally.
unfortunately satellite internet companies usually want to tie you to a contract - but satellite internet would solve your problem - just beware of Time Warner- Spectrum. I have internet from a cable company and high speed is costing me about sixty a month, but my wife and I spend a lot of time on the computers.
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