NO NEWS FROM SICILY-SICILIANMAMA TAKES A MEDIA BREAK
If you are reading this, the media break is over.
At first we thought it was not intentional. Telecom Italia made us believe either 1. we had old lines that had problems, or 2. they were moving some lines. The reason that we are not sure which is that we got different stories depending on who we talked to and when, and besides, there is that language barrier. But we got Joe and Brigette as well as Paolo, whose line has been out for weeks, to ask also about our phone number, but in Italian. They repeatedly said everything would be fixed by the 27th (Friday).
Then we started getting cell phone calls about our requested move of the phone line. We told the same story each time…we DID NOT request a phone line moved, and it was our line not working that was the problem. After two phone calls from the “tecnicos” this morning however, someone finally found an English speaker. And surprise, surprise…they even listened to us. There was nothing wrong with our line for a week. The company had merely turned it off in anticipation of moving the phone line (a week in advance???).
Now everything we said in Italian was not believed, maybe because we did not speak Italian very well. But that does not explain the conversations that Italian people had concerning out number with other Italian speakers. Someone had made a mistake at the company and so no one listened to us, ever, when we told them we did not want our phone line moved. Amazing!
Well, so how does that affect my life? instead of my usual routine of going to the computer a few times an hour to see who is online to Instant Message, or to try to reach my kids or my sister or sister-in-law, or to call my dad if the time seems right, I did not even turn on the computer most days and I looked forward to just checking for a dial tone on the phone a few times a day. This has given me the great opportunity to do all sorts of things I would not normally get a chance to do-to clean out my mailbox and desktop icons, to straighten out my picture labels and look through my photo files, for the few things I can do when the machine is turned on. But I do miss the MSN TV and celebrity news and the latest on new books, movies, and travel. I do NOT miss the latest political news, since it is almost always a down lately anyway. I think I have ODed on elections, Iranian threats and nuclear tests, and the Iraq war anyway lately.
But I do get to wondering how my family and friends are. I also wonder if anyone misses hearing from me! I wonder how many more Flickr clicks I got while I was off and what kind of shots have been posted on my Sicily group. And then there is the entirely frivolous need to update what happened on Desperate Housewives this week.
I am just so glad to be back with the wired set.
At first we thought it was not intentional. Telecom Italia made us believe either 1. we had old lines that had problems, or 2. they were moving some lines. The reason that we are not sure which is that we got different stories depending on who we talked to and when, and besides, there is that language barrier. But we got Joe and Brigette as well as Paolo, whose line has been out for weeks, to ask also about our phone number, but in Italian. They repeatedly said everything would be fixed by the 27th (Friday).
Then we started getting cell phone calls about our requested move of the phone line. We told the same story each time…we DID NOT request a phone line moved, and it was our line not working that was the problem. After two phone calls from the “tecnicos” this morning however, someone finally found an English speaker. And surprise, surprise…they even listened to us. There was nothing wrong with our line for a week. The company had merely turned it off in anticipation of moving the phone line (a week in advance???).
Now everything we said in Italian was not believed, maybe because we did not speak Italian very well. But that does not explain the conversations that Italian people had concerning out number with other Italian speakers. Someone had made a mistake at the company and so no one listened to us, ever, when we told them we did not want our phone line moved. Amazing!
Well, so how does that affect my life? instead of my usual routine of going to the computer a few times an hour to see who is online to Instant Message, or to try to reach my kids or my sister or sister-in-law, or to call my dad if the time seems right, I did not even turn on the computer most days and I looked forward to just checking for a dial tone on the phone a few times a day. This has given me the great opportunity to do all sorts of things I would not normally get a chance to do-to clean out my mailbox and desktop icons, to straighten out my picture labels and look through my photo files, for the few things I can do when the machine is turned on. But I do miss the MSN TV and celebrity news and the latest on new books, movies, and travel. I do NOT miss the latest political news, since it is almost always a down lately anyway. I think I have ODed on elections, Iranian threats and nuclear tests, and the Iraq war anyway lately.
But I do get to wondering how my family and friends are. I also wonder if anyone misses hearing from me! I wonder how many more Flickr clicks I got while I was off and what kind of shots have been posted on my Sicily group. And then there is the entirely frivolous need to update what happened on Desperate Housewives this week.
I am just so glad to be back with the wired set.
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