Our cable bill is way too high.

When Jen and I moved in together, one of our thoughts was, “Hey, if we live together, we can afford cable!”

Jen is addicted to CNN and all the other cable news channels. I love my Comedy Central.

The cost of cable, however, has proven to be outrageous, especially considering how much we don’t actually watch it.

Evil Cable Provider has a “broadcast” option, for which you pay a minimal fee for your basic channels. Where we live, this fee is $11.45. Not so bad, except when you consider that R (in the suburbs) gets the SAME OPTION for $5 less per month. Evil.

But, you know, whatever. I called today to pay our overdue bill, and asked the nice customer service representative about downgrading to the lower option.

She quoted me the price, and then said, “There is a one-time fee of $25 to downgrade, because we have to send a technician to your house.”

A technician. Yeah. I’m SO sure that’s necessary.

I was sending an email in which I typed the name of the Evil Cable Provider. (Philadephia, minus “phil”) Spell check picked it up as a spelling error, and what do you suppose it suggested I change it to?

Adolph.