A Very Generous Gift Indeed!

I am sure everyone who reads my blog religiously, and has been tired of me only having two eyes, has received a gift that they could call generous, whether it was having permission to leave work a whole thirty minutes early on Christmas Eve day or when Grandma gave you a $50 dollar bill instead of her usual $5 (not like that ever happened to me though) at the end of a pleasant visit. Maybe you received an extravagant gift from someone you expected a sack of coal from, and then felt really bad about it because you did give them a sack of coal...You get the idea.

So when I received a card from Bell’s internet service, Sympatico, stating something to the effect that they (the faceless morons at Bell) hoped my recent move (well my move two and a half months ago) was a success and that they were giving me a month of internet service free, I was thrilled, I got that warm fuzzy feeling deep down inside. They do care, the almighty corporations do care! I waited patiently for my next telephone bill to arrive (thanks to Bell’s one bill everything is on one bill now and is twice as complicated to figure out) so I could gloat about the freebie. When the bill finally came I giddily ripped it open like a child opening a Christmas present and my mouth dropped; there was no rebate for the month’s internet service.

Now I was thinking I had read the card wrong so I read it again, then I conferred with Mrs. Shuster to see if I might be reading it wrong. Alas, I was mistaken; it said they had given me a free month of internet service. I immediately tore through my bills from the last three months trying to find the rebate but it was useless, I never received this alleged free month of internet service. So when this month’s bill came I was expecting to finally see this elusive free month but again I was disappointed. How much more disappointment can one man take???

All I have to say is that at least they didn’t charge me twice! I have given up hope for this supposed free month of internet service. As the title says, this was a very generous gift indeed! Thanks Bell, you guys rock! Best company in the world, next to Rogers of course.