Can you hear me now?

Friday Greg had an unexpectedly short work day, so after treating me to lunch he decided to work on the sprinkler system, including replacing a couple of sprinkler heads in the backyard. I was puttering around in the basement when I heard a very deliberate pounding on the door. I opened it to find Greg standing in the garage, hands covered in mud. "I just cut the phone line. I need you to call the phone company and get someone out here to fix it," he said calmly.

Now, you need some history on Greg's propensity to cut phone lines. "Call before you dig?" What? Huh? Are you talking? This is at least the third house in which he has cut the phone line, and it's NEVER just ours that he takes out, it's usually at least one of the neighbors also.

In one of his best performances to date, this time he took out the whole neighborhood. How? Because when he went to dig out the old sprinkler head, the phone line had the audacity to be right in his way! Of course our internet (and probably that of many of our neighbors) is through the phone lines, and at 3:00 on a Friday afternoon it was looking like much of Brookfield Park would be incommunicado for the weekend.

So I used my cell phone to call the phone company, and the happy representative told me a repairman would be out "sometime" the next day (Saturday). No four-hour window, no phone call before they come, just "sometime tomorrow." Gulp. I went outside to let Greg know he better start knocking on the doors of our neighbors to explain what happened.

Being the amazingly gifted man that he is, he was able to splice the line back together and thus avoid the humiliation of informing the neighbors. All was well again within about an hour of the event and hopefully most of them were none the wiser.

And now, for the rest of story ...

We got home from shopping yesterday (Saturday) and in the mailbox was a nifty orange form stating that AT&T had been out and the problem was fixed. Cool. Greg checked it out and it was definitely fixed in a more permanent way than he had left it. Last night, our phone rang, and it came up an 800 number, which I refuse to answer so I handed him the phone. He answered and got this recording, "This is the AT&T repair center calling to let you know that your repair is completed. If you need more assistance or feel the repair is not completed, please press two ..... blah blah blah ..... AT&T would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your business!"

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