To Time Warner Cable

10Feb08

A message that will hopefully reach Time Warner Cable in time.

My morning routine:

I open my eyes and look around, deciding if there’s a enough light yet to fully wake me up. I lay in bed for about an hour thinking about my to-do list and sometimes pondering on the many perplexities of the mysterious universe that surrounds me. I stretch in bed and realize how it’s just too cold to get out from under the covers. I turn on the television to watch my daily dosage of a Windows error dialog box in the center of my screen.

Wait. WHAT?!?


It’s all true; I would not lie about such a serious matter. WSI (Weather Services International) created a service that features “a number of technological advances” that bring local weather to your television in a fast and reliable way. That really is innovative and I appreciate their efforts because I like knowing what the state of the weather is at all hours of the day. I don’t know how anybody managed to stay alive before (in the time when we had to figure out if it was raining for ourselves).


For those of you who have Time Warner Cable and live in South California, I am sure that you understand just how I felt when I turned on the TV to Channel 97 to find out just what was going on outside.

“scan32 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”

That doesn’t look like a forecast to me!!! What’s going on?!?! I can’t see the temperature!!! I CAN’T LEAVE MY HOUSE WITHOUT KNOWING!!! This is a huge inconvenience.


Time Warner Cable, if you are out there and reading this:
I need you to fix the problem. It has been more than a few days now and as I said before I cannot leave my house. This is not only crucial for my health, but it is a factor that affects thousands of people that want to know what their local weather is.

“If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost.

Please tell Microsoft about this problem.
We have created an error report that you can send to us. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous.”

Time Warner Cable, I beg of you… for the sake of humanity… do NOT send an error report. Do NOT tell Microsoft about this problem. Think about it, it’s their fault there is a dialog box on hundreds of TV sets. The ratings for this channel have gone down immensely since this occurred. I urge you to press “Don’t Send” and let us continue enjoying the weather forecast that you so faithfully supply to us hourly.


Sincerely,
Romina Espinosa
A Concerned Citizen


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  1. 1 smithjones on February 11, 2008 said:

    I like the post, but the best part is all the different photo angles of the TV. p.s. You have a smudge on your wall.

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  2. 2 Ian on February 11, 2008 said:

    So, what’s the weather like today? I kid. I kid. You’d think someone at Time Warner would, you know, watch television or something.

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  3. 3 Romina Espinosa on February 11, 2008 said:

    Oh, you guys are really funny aren’t you.

    The smudge is plaster to close a hole on the wall.
    Hopefully Time Warner will read my letter.

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