Dear Verizon Fios-A Letter Of Concern

Dear Verizon Fios,
I am writing because of a great concern I have for your current customer base here in Southern California. You see, my husband, like many other people in this area, is a baseball fan. Specifically a Dodger fan. As I'm sure you are aware, you are not showing Dodger games through your service this season. This, my friends, is a problem...for several reasons:

#1 If my husband can't watch Dodger games from the comfort of our living room, he tends to buy tickets to the games. And he likes to get good seats, which tend to be expensive. More expensive than it would be for me to pay the cancellation fee and cancel your service to go back to Time Warner Cable where he can watch Dodger games at home.

#2 When we were first married and we didn't have a cable provider, he would just take me to a sports bar across the street from our apartment. It was awesome. He could watch the game and I could order a turkey/bacon/avocado sandwich and life was just fine. But now, you see, we have two kids, and there is no way I am dragging my two little sunshines to a Sports bar. Because they would mess the place up with all their running around, throwing things, and starting random lengthy conversations about Nemo, and preschool, and the like, while people are trying to watch games. Then, when we would go back for the next game, there would probably be a sign on the door that said "No Kids". And there are a limited number of sports bars in this area. (Like 150 or so) So that couldn't keep going on for very long.

#3 Have you ever met a Dodger fan? Nay, ever seen one? They are not all happy, wholesome, surf bums like my husband. Some of them are very serious about their team. Very. Serious. Some of them have LA Tattoos on their heads. Some of them carry baseball bats behind the seats in their El Caminos. Some of them are the kind of guys you wish were your cousins, and not the cousins of the guy you're about to fight. You know what I mean? So, I recommend you get this situation straightened out before tensions rise any higher, and all of LA county...***The rest of this line has been deleted so that I don't get indicted for insighting a riot.*** If you think I'm joking, just google "Riot in LA", and have yourself a nice little nights sleep after that.

So in summary, I would like to inform you that I would like for you to do whatever it is that you need to do to get this little issue rectified. Whatever the cause, contracts, money, maybe your company is owned by Giants fans, I don't care.  Sort it out and get it fixed. You have until the next home series begins which is April 18th. If not, I will be canceling your service. And I cannot be responsible for what any other Dodger fans do as well. 

You have been warned.

Sincerely,
A Concerned Customer

Update 9/20/14:
Time Warner Cable conceded their monopoly of Dodger games, and announced that they will be showing the last two series of the Dodgers' regular season on Fox Sports 1, which will play across all cable and satellite networks. ...But it was too late. Verizon Fios didn't stand up for its Dodger fan customers soon or well enough, and therefore they will no longer be our provider. You can call it whatever you want, but I feel like in my own small way, I am sticking it to the man.

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McDonalds Writes Back

I received the following response to my Letter of Concern to McDonalds. This post will make more sense if you read that post first.

Source

McDonalds.CustomerCare@us.mcd.com
to me

Hello TWIT:

A Letter of Concern-McDonalds Breakfast

Dear McDonalds,

Lets talk about your breakfast for a moment shall we? First of all, your pancakes are amazing. I don't know what you put in them, bits of fluffy clouds, unicorn tears, crack maybe? But whatever it is, it is amazing, and they are delicious.

There is only one problem with them, and that is that they are not available after 10:30am. Do you know what it is like to pull into a McDonalds drive thru at 10:38am, and the realize you are too late for pancakes, and have to pull out of the drive thru to go find a Jack In The Box where they serve breakfast all day?

There are some neighborhoods where you have to drive for miles to find the Jack In The Box. You even pass another McDonalds on the way. But if someone wants breakfast, they are going to get breakfast. And my friends, there are days when I just want breakfast.

You know if this is the only good business decision they ever made, it would still make them billions of dollars, because they are literally stealing your breakfast customers, and it's all your fault.

Didn't you see the movie Big Daddy?

Sorry about the language here peeps.

A Letter of Concern-Pregnant Pitty Party

Photo by Kara Rush Photography

Recently a friend of mine posted this little gem as his status on facebook:

"I might be pregnant. Why else would I be craving Café Rio?"

Here is my response:

A Letter of Concern-Dear Caltrans

Dear Caltrans,

The other day I was traveling down the freeway and noticed that my exit was closed without any warning.  There were no detour signs warning me to exit early. There were no notices that my "Exit would be closing on this date, from this time to this time", nothing.

(Something like this might have been nice.) Photo Credit

Normally this would not be such a big deal, however, my exit is the last exit on that particular freeway.

Do you know what that means?

That means that If my exit is closed, I am forced to transition onto a whole other freeway, and in order to get back on my route, I will have to drive several miles out of the way.

Normally even this would not be such a terrible inconvenience, or at least it would be one that I could live with.  However I am pregnant right now, and what if I needed to go to the bathroom?