{"id":28721,"date":"2018-12-31T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28721"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:02:44","slug":"i-was-a-cable-guy-i-saw-the-worst-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28721","title":{"rendered":"I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America."},"content":{"rendered":"

Long and awesome<\/a> story about things a cable tech saw on her rounds. Yikes.<\/p>\n

I was filling out the work orders and emailing my supervisor to give him a heads-up on a possible call from a member of every cable tech\u2019s favorite rage cult, when his wife knocked on my van window. She stepped back and called me \u201cma\u2019am.\u201d Which was nice. Her husband with the tucked-in polo shirt had asked my name and I told him Lauren. He heard Lawrence because it fit what he saw and asked if he could call me Larry. Guys like that use your name as a weapon. \u201cLarry, explain to me why I had to sit around here from 1 to 3 waiting on you and you show up at 3:17. Does that seem like good customer service to you, Larry? And now you\u2019re telling 7 to 10 days? Larry, I\u2019m getting really tired of hearing this shit.\u201d Guys like that, it was safer to just let them think I was a man.<\/p>\n

She said she was sorry about him. I said, \u201cIt\u2019s fine.\u201d I said there really wasn\u2019t anything I could do. She blinked back the flood of tears she\u2019d been holding since God knows when. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s just, when he has Fox, he has Obama to hate. If he doesn\u2019t have that ...\u201d She kept looking over her shoulder. She was terrified of him. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she said. \u201cI just need him to have Fox.\u201d I got out of my van.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long and awesome story about things a cable tech saw on her rounds. Yikes. I was filling out the work orders and emailing my supervisor to give him a heads-up on a possible call from a member of every cable tech\u2019s favorite rage cult, when his wife knocked on my van window. She stepped back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28724,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions\/28724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}