atoms into suns

When your preschooler asks you to go to a certain fast-food restaurant known for its marketing to children, it's time to cancel the cable.

Especially when we've never taken our kids to the place. And we only watch a few hours of TV a week, on supposedly educational channels.

The conversation with the cable customer service lady, as recounted by Bill:

The woman asked why we were getting rid of it, and I said "It's corrupting my children."
There was a pause, and she answered timidly, "I'm sorry".

Then I laughed to ease the tension.

Then, a few days after it was disconnected, someone from the cable company came to the door doing a survey on how we liked our service, so I got to overhear Bill telling him again that it was corrupting our children. This time, the reply was a too-confident laugh, followed by, "Corrupting your children! What do you mean, corrupting your children?"

I love making cable representatives nervous. Too bad it doesn't work for TV executives.