Latest Cable Drama Update

When will the torment end? No time soon it seems...
After the neighbor's call a couple of weeks ago, Hubby and I just decided to let it go and see what happens- we agreed that there is no need to keep worrying about what she might or might not do... and if she does have our cable line cut after her self-imposed deadline, then we will just call the cable company and have it hooked back up. Well, one night last week after work I found one of those door hanger info tags on our front door from the cable company informing us that they had come out to service our cable and needed to get into our home to complete the work. Hubby contacted them the next day and never received a call back- again, we just let it ride since we did not call them out in the first place. Well guess who calls Hubby this past Friday... yep, you guessed it- psycho-neighbor lady. She wanted to let us know that since the cable company never relocated our cable lines off "her" pole this past week that she was having it disconnected on Monday (today). Needless to say, the call wound up being another ugly ending one- I am just so glad that Hubby has decided not to take any more crap from her. Well, Saturday afternoon we receive a phone call from the cable company- they are following up on our service call scheduled for Monday (today) from 2pm-5pm to repair our service. I tell them that there is nothing wrong with our service and that we did not schedule for them to come out for any repairs. But, I have an idea of WHO did! I explain the situation to the lady with the cable company and we realize during that phone call that the neighbor must be calling up and acting like she is us and scheduling service work on our lines! Didn't I say psycho lady earlier? Who in their right mind would impersonate their neighbors to get the cable company to come out? Besides the fact they were told to come and "fix" a damaged line when she really wants them to "relocate" their lines. We discussed any options on getting service to our house without utilizing her pole- any thing to get the heck away from her at this point! So they set up for a maintenance crew to come out Monday (today) to look into bringing the service into our home a different route. I voiced my point again that we would NOT be there when the maintenance crew came out- not this time- they are on their own! Well, how surprised were we when a cable company bucket truck came rolling down our driveway yesterday! Yes, on Mothers Day Sunday at that! The very nice older gentleman wanted to check out the lines and such and after investigating the situation and the layout of the property he concluded that our lines could not be relocated- that per code, the cable lines have to follow the power lines and that is exactly what they are doing now. After explaining the timeline that has occurred since this all started in 2004, he said that he was going to have his highest supervisor get in touch with the neighbor and explain to her that there is no other option. I told him that they better have tough skin. He also said that if she touched their lines that it is a felony and she would be in some serious trouble. (Is it awful for me to wish her to do it just to be punished??)
So today is Monday and who knows what is going down today with the cable lines and/or the psycho-neighbor. What I do know is that I better not miss the finale of the Biggest Loser tomorrow night because she decided to pay some riff-raff electrician to cut our cable and she better not call or show up at our home tonight wanting to start something. We shall see what tomorrow brings....

Just Another BIG Reason To Get The Heck Outta Dodge!

Guess which drama queen strikes again? Yep! Our crazy old psycho neighbor is back to her old tricks again. After that whole show-down in our driveway last month (see THIS BLOG), I was confident we were safe from her anti-cable company antics for a long while... WRONG. Last week I received a voice mail from her informing me that the power line on her house was damaged by our cable guy when he worked on our cable (over 7 weeks ago mind you!) and that she was having a private contractor come repair it. Oh and she also also wanted to tell me that while this so-called contractor was there she was also going to have him disconnect our cable line off "HER" pole and have him them roll it up to the street and leave it. (This is her way of "getting back at that comcast").. her message continued on about how comcast won't address her issues because she is not a customer of theirs (duh!) and how she is just notifying us that we will not have cable/internet after May 8... How nice of her to "notify us" and give us the complimentary/neighborly heads-up- you freaking psychopath! I am SO over this woman and all of her cable-hatred driven drama!! Why cannot she just live out her retirement years in peace and leave her nice working neighbors alone? I am really starting to think she is just looking for some attention... So I called Hubby (who was outta town at his job site) and let him know the latest drama with the fruit-loop next door... I assured Hubby that I would NOT address this issue with her now or ever again- it is his turn! Besides, my sky-high level of anger towards her is not healthy and having to deal with her would only make matters worse for all of us. Well..... Hubby tried to contact the cable company and never got a response before he decided to just confront her directly (by phone). He asked her what was going on to which she responded that our cable guy had pulled her power line off her house... yadda yadda yadda... Hubby said that they were out over 7 weeks ago and she is just now discovering the loose connection? He told her that it could have been like that for months and she just did not see it... she of course automatically blames the cable man (who never touched the power lines or her house for that matter- besides that fact that the power lines are about 8-10 ft above the cable lines on the pole). He tries to explain to her that she cannot remove items off of a public utility pole and that there are hefty fines associated with it (including possible jail time)... she won't listen. He tells her that the pole is not "hers" and it the property of the power company... to which she says that it is MY pole since it is on MY property! He tries to reason with her and she just refuses to listen... she says that she "has" to take care of this cable company issue (of course, we really do not understand WHAT the issue is... except that she thinks their lines should not be on "her" pole).. Again, can you say psychopath?? By the end of the call, she tells Hubby that she just "cannot deal with that cable company's crap anymore" and he responds that "well, we cannot deal with your crap anymore"... and proceeds to inform her to never ask us for another favor in the future if this is how she wants to deal with her so-called "problem"... and then he hung up on her. Wow. For my Hubby to end the call on that note and hang up on her... just Wow. You go boy!
Well, since I was in Denver from this past Friday to Sunday, Hubby stayed home and worked in the yard (between rain storms) and fortunately never saw her! How uncomfortable would that scenario be? I personally think he should have carried a weapon for back-up protection... just in case... Oh well, I guess her self-imposed "deadline" is this Friday the 8th... thankfully Hubby will be in town and I guess if she gets her "private contractor" (who is her son by the way) to cut our cable on Friday or over the weekend, we will just have to call the cable company and have them come out and hook it back up. And hopefully we do not have to be there this time to "deal" with the stand-off that will happen between her and them once again for the cable re-installation.
Of course, Hubby is banking on her crying Wolf and not doing any thing. Personally, I am wondering if she is having her son do it for her Mother's Day gift... again, psychopath!!