I loathe utility workers.

I have cable. I have had cable here for seven years. Comcast decided that they needed to add some kind of box on the back of my house. Apparently it was a new law or building requirement or some other crap that the cable had to be grounded before it entered the house. Ok. I can understand that. But...my cable works.

The cable guy came out, talked to me like I was four years old, and proceded to mash my irises into paste. Totally obliterated them. He damn near took out my new pieris japonica, too. The daylily bed looks like an elephant took a casual stroll thru it. The last time the guy came out he had to use my phone. This time I had to go scare up the big extension cord....the big orange monster. I think he just didn't want to walk back to his truck. I left him to do his thing and next thing I know he's just strolling thru my house. I ask him what he needs and he just says "Can I go out this door?" Yeah buddy. Don't let it hit you in the ass.

He left and I went outside to view the carnage. He left the fence gate open. The dog was gone. He just left the extension cord laying in the daylilies. He left his cable spool on top of the heat pump. And destroyed the flower bed.

Verizon and the electric company came out today to mark their buried cables. The verizon guy plowed thru the same freaking flowerbed and snapped off a 3 ft stalk from my cardinal flower. Not just snapped. Twisted and snapped. And their line isn't buried there.

I got on the phone with comcast and repeated the same thing that I said to the cable guy when he was here a week or so ago. There is no need to lay a cable from the road to my house and thru all of my landscaping. There is already a cable there that worked just fine. Connect to the old cable and run it under the house (where I have nothing growing), to the new box and then back to the tv where the psycho drilled a hole up thru the floor...thru the berber carpet. Asshat. Did he remove the old cable that came in thru the wall? No. It's still there. Not attached to anything. Lovely.

Of course the customer service rep couldn't help me.