So we got cable .. For a couple of minutes. :)

So we have been anti-cable for about three years now. That's right. You read it. We do not have cable.  Not even bunny ears.

On Tuesday we were on the phone with the cable company having our internet speed increased. I thought maybe we should get cable because there are certain things we do not get on Netflix such as the news and the History channel. I was a little upset when we were not able to watch the Bible series.

The cable guy came that day but he didn't have a cable box. Really?

So we scheduled another appointment for the next day between the hours of 12:00pm and 2:00pm.
12 o'clock came. No cable guy. 1 o'clock came. Still no cable guy. 2 o'clock came. 3 o'clock came. Yep! You guessed it. He never showed up. So I called the cable company. The cable company called dispatch. Then I waited until 4:30pm. He still was not here. So I called again. Finally at 5pm the cable guys made their grand entrance.

They spent an hour trying to figure out why the cable would not turn on. They went in the attic. Everything worked there. They went outside. Everything worked there. They played with our TV. They played with the cable box.


Then they took the plate off the wall. HA! Someone had cut the cord. Apparently we were serious when we gave up cable three years ago.

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So they had to find the line and add to it. Viola. We had cable. They left and I turned on the TV to discover that there are literally thousands of channels.... and nothing to watch. Really! We watched Little House on the Prairie for a little while (a little nostalgic memento from my youth). But there was nothing else any of us wanted to see. Nothing. At all. Even after you stripped away all of the commercials by using the DVR there was still nothing at all that any of us wanted to watch. Strangely enough we didn't want to turn it off because we were actually paying for it. So we watched for the rest of the evening with a growing since of "what in the world did we just do?"

From the moment we turned on the cable box, we felt like we made a mistake. Why would we spend $53 a month for this? Really? So we can sit here every night flipping channels and saying there is nothing on television, feeling guilty for wasting money if we turn it off. We literally forced ourselves to watch a couple of shows and tried really hard to enjoy them. Finally, my husband did the greatest thing of all. He walked over and unplugged the cable box. The next day I called the cable company.

It went something like this:
Recording: "In a few words please state why you are calling."
Me:  "Cancel cable"
Transferring.. On hold..
Operator: "Good afternoon.... Bla bla bla bla bla."
Me: "We had cable installed yesterday but we changed our minds."
Operator: "Was there anything wrong with our service."
Me: What I wanted to say. "Yes! It's horrible. Why would I spend 53 dollars a month for a service that I already get for 8 dollars a month. I am great at finding other ways of wasting my hard earned money. I do not need your help."  but of course I didn't say that. :)

If there is a show that I really want to watch I can watch it on Hulu or Netflix. And if I absolutely have to I can just buy the series on DVD or blue ray.

So we learned a lesson. We really do not want or need cable. Glad we got that out of our system. :)