A Comcast Life

I've lacked in my blogging, because my life doesn't have any of those zings and blings. However, I have found someone to take my place, to be the show in my blog.

The other day I went to the local Comcast to pick up a cable box. I had cable, but could only get ~8 channels and not the channels I wanted, so I thought I'd spurge and get the cable with "over 40 channels". Anyway, I was in the store, someone called "next in line" and I went up to the teller. The teller didn't say hello or ask me what I wanted or anything like that. Instead she went straight into her life story, which I have to say tops mine altogether. She had been married 28 years, had two kids with one of her kids, an 18 year old daughter a real trouble maker. Over the years the 18 year old had reported to the police that her dad molested her, beat her, etc... The other child, a younger boy, had just watched all this, he was the quiet one. The Comcast lady's husband was verbally abusive over the years, had his mother yelling at her too and to top it off had cheated on her. Though, she had cheated on him too, ~17 years ago and yes he still hung this over her head every chance he got. Well, after 28 years the husband has now moved out and the daughter is going off to college. This week-end will be the first week-end this woman, a country sounding, chain smoking, ~40 year old, will be spending solo, and she wasn't excited about it. She was still hopeful on getting back with her husband or was she? That was still up for debate. Whew...

You're probably wondering how long I stood at the teller counter listening to this soap, if my eyes popped out of my head or if I was served popcorns, snacks, etc... but it really wasn't that long and since there weren't any commercials it seemed to go by pretty fast. I guess she just needed an ear and I was there. It showed me that my life is pretty quiet and mellow, though I'm perfectly fine with that.