telcos

i'm trying to work out how to cancel my time warner cable bill.

their website makes it very easy to pay your bill, but i'm buggered if i can find any way to cancel it. anyway, so while i was searching the web for how i might actually stop paying these people $40 / month for 1000 channels of extremely addictive mind-numbing shite, i found this post on craigslist...

i'll let you know if i fare any better than this guy. to be honest, i'm not +ve that i _can_ match his kung-fu style :)

Time Warner Cable: I got all day

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Date: 2005-03-04, 2:56PM EST


In the time it takes me to cancel Time Warner cable, I've managed to: -Read all the top stories on yahoo news -Read every major CL city's RnR for the past few days -Masterbate -Make some coffee -Do yesterday's dishes -Take out the trash -Watch sportscenter -Take a shit -Brush my teeth -Shave -Make out this month's rent check and mail it -Get a slice and eat it -Pickup my laundry -Put away my laundry -Chat with 3 friends on IM -Compose a three paragraph cover letter -Write an email to an old reference -Burn 2 CDs -Name that annoying classical tune blaring while I'm on hold (Liebestraum) -Post this on CL And I'm still on hold. Time Warner, you can't match my kung fu style. I got all day, motherfuckers.
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trombone rouge

this guy traded a red paperclip for a house. over a period of a year, and 14 trades, he traded up the red paper clip from his resume for a house in Kipling Saskatchewan.

the trades were:
paperclip for fish pen
for clay doorknob
camping stove
red generator
beer keg + light up budweiser sign = instant party
a famous skidoo
a trip to yahk, british columbia
a camper van
a recording contract
a years rent on an apartment in phoenix
an afternoon with alice cooper
a KISS snowglobe
a movie role
a house in saskatchewan

awesome...

ps speaking of montreal (well, we weren't but this red paperclip dude is from there), i just got back from the jazz festival and 4 days with kim k and bf jean-maxime.

couldn't believe what a friendly city montreal was. after new york, i felt like everyone must be about to steal my wallet or something - i couldn't see why they would be smiling for no reason. nobody in nyc smiles at a stranger for no reason..