Home vs Cell Phone, round 2
So we dropped our land line when we switched cable providers. Except I couldn't do it. I actually called Verizon the next day and signed us up for the cheapest plan possible (basically a dial-tone, no long distance, no calling features). They said it would take about 7 days to change the number over from Comcast to them. Fine whatever, I can deal with not having the home phone on for a week.
Except it's now been 2 weeks. Girl Scout people and the school and random others are like, "I tried your number and it's not working." They are the reason I decided I can't go without a local area code number. I know most people don't care about calling long distance (our cell phones are still Ohio area codes) but I can tell they think it's a bit weird. Plus I really like having a land line especially when my cell phone is being dumb and the battery is dead and it doesn't want to charge. And I know the 911 system is very responsive when called from a home phone here.
So I called Verizon again this morning (after the school called my cell and the nurse** was like "your home phone doesn't work, why the 513 area code?"). Seems Comcast did something screwy with our number and Verizon wasn't sure they could still get it without reactivating the Comcast account. It would take days and it involved me calling Comcast and in the end it wasn't guaranteed I'd have our old number. Uh huh... I'd make a wager that Verizon probably holds part of the blame but why would they accuse themselves when they can shrug it off onto Comcast? Again fine whatever, give me a new phone number.
Now I have a new number and I'm suppose to have service by Friday. I'm not holding my breath and I'm kinda grumpy about a different phone number but hopefully it'll work. Kinda ironic that I'm going through all this work for a land line and I hate talking on the phone in the first place...
** Ally has a possible patch of poison ivy that's not really bothering her and she doesn't need picked up from school. Sometimes I think the school nurse goes out of her way to make work for herself.
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