Yesterday afternoon, SteelyKid and I dozed off in the living room recliner. When I woke up, it had been three hours since she last ate, roughly her usual between-feedings interval, but she was still sound asleep on my lap. Kate was due home in half an hour or so, though, so I wasn’t sure whether to wake and feed the baby, or let her sleep until Kate came home.<\/p>\n
I decided to call Kate’s cell to confirm her ETA. Not wanting to wake SteelyKid by getting up to get to the landline, I pulled out my trusty cell phone, running on what an endless string of Verizon ads assure me is America’s finest cell phone network.<\/p>\n
Not only do I not have any bars, I actually get the phone-with-a-line-through-it “no signal” symbol, as if I were out in the middle of the wilderness, or trapped in an iron mine, or something. While sitting in a comfortable chair in my own house, in a pleasant and affluent suburb.<\/p>\n
If I ever run into the “Can you hear me now?” guy, I’m going to punch him right in the face.<\/p>\n
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(The sad thing is, Verizon really is about the best option around here. That doesn’t make it easier to put up with those “You’ve got The Network” commercials six times an hour.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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