Where is Waldo
- Thread starter cecilias9
- Start date
Help Support Winemaking Talk - Winemaking Forum:
He has not been on as much as he used to these last few months. He pops in usually once a week at least.
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2009
- Messages
- 20,302
- Reaction score
- 2,222
Waldo has the best stories!
He lives in Arkansas. You don't suppose any of the recent bad weather in that area has affected him, do you?
Waldo is alive and doing well. Was without phone service for 6 days but they finally sent someone out yesterday evening and got us back in service after they "INSISTED" it was trouble with the lines in my house, and after they had me change all my DSL filters, Disconnect everything connected by phone line, try different phones, pour some of my Muscadine wine through the main box out on the wall, kick the neighbors dog, shave off one side of my beard and watch Gone With The Wind 3 times in a row they finally conceded it might be on their line coming in and sure enough it was.
- Joined
- Nov 12, 2005
- Messages
- 15,188
- Reaction score
- 1,207
Glad you got back on online Waldo. A few years ago when my entrance box for the phone was blown up and melted by the lightning I was without a phone. Just for giggles a couple days after it happened, I picked up the previosly dead phone, and it had a dialtone. I called for repairs. The person on the line said "You can't have a problem, you are calling on that phone line." I assured them I did, and grudgingly they sent someone out to check. Sure enough, the box was totally destroyed. The repairman asked if he could take it with him. It seems they keep their worst cases for display and this was now the worst box they had ever seen. I still don't understand how I had suddenly gotten a dialtone because it was dead again when the repairman had arrived.
Good to have you back, Waldo. You should knowthat it is NEVER the utility's fault.
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2009
- Messages
- 20,302
- Reaction score
- 2,222
Waldo glad to see you safe and sound. We miss your posts and humor.
DR, I tried dropping theland line last year but found I needed a fax. I know there is a way to do faxes through your computer, but I have not been able to figure that out yet.
I too would love to drop my land line and that was the plan when we got our cell phones until we discovered that almost every carrier and phone either doesnt work at all in my area or only works in a very limited # of spots like my front yard, my daughters room upstairs or in our sunroom, nowhere else does just about any other phone or provider work here!!!
