Letting go, lightening up.

I let go of a couple sizable things this week.

First, I ditched my long-time internet provider. 🥳

I’m gonna be polite(-ish) and try to avoid naming said internet provider (yup, those guys). They were the only game in town for decent-ish speed — they had zero competition.

That internet provider had me over a barrel and acted like it. They tripled my forever rate without notice and then told me they’d never given said rate to me in the first place. Didn’t matter that they’d accepted that amount from me for four years. Nope.

It’s maddening to try to settle a dispute this way, when you’re told, in all kinds of ways, that what happened didn’t happen. Maddening AF.

It’s painful to even remember what happened when I tried to get them to reverse this rate increase; I bet you can imagine the support conversations. 🙄

I swear, I must have something like 20 linear feet of saved chat conversations full of lies, contradictions, and misrepresentations. Exhausting.

It didn’t help matters when I let my frustration get the best of me. A beloved potty-mouth friend said something like, “Oh, sounds like you were getting it in the butt without the benefit of lube.” Right. That. And then that sentiment started coming out of my mouth in my subsequent desperate interactions…