The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for May 21, 2013
Transcript:
Telephone: Hello. You have reached the Ruud Cable TV Company. IF you aren't an existing customer... Telephone: And you wish to purchase our service, press one. Approximate wait time is thirty seconds. Telephone: If you are an existing customer and you are experiencing trouble with our service, press two. Approximate wait time is thirty minutes.
Then you talk to some guy in India who schedules a repairman to come out the third Tuesday of next month.
And then the repair guy either doesn’t show or takes a quick look and says they’ll have to order the part, which will take approximately 4-6 weeks to arrive from China.