We’re in the process of switching from DirecTV to Dish Network...not that we were so aw’fly dissatisified with the programming or quality of DirecTV....we weren’t.....but it was the little things....the things we shouldn’t have had to bother with ‘n when I called seeking resoultion, I was met with ‘attitude’....’n excuses ‘n put on call waiting ‘n changed from one so-called service person to another ‘til I just ran completely out of patience...you’d think that company that sells a service would recognize the importance of actually being of service to their customers... ANYWAYS, brother Bill has Dish ‘n he seems content ‘n they’re offering a lot better deal (read cheaper).....so now I got a guy on the roof changing the satelitte dish....he seems a little more comfortable up on the ridgeline of my roof than I am, but not all that much....t’ain’t that my roof is so aw’fly high or so aw’fly steep but we’re kind’a on top of a small hill here in Ol Fair Oaks ‘n when you’re up there where the air is rarefied (joke),,,,you are up in the treetops ‘n you can see a long way.....
So, I guess now I’ll have to get used to a whole new bunch of numbers for the channels that we watch....a brand new remote ‘n all that.....on the up side, now we’ll have high def (big WOW)....’n of course, we’re gonna be getting some of those so-called premium channels for awhile...I s’pect about the time they’ll want to start charging me for them, I’ll already have been tired of them for several weeks.....
I tho’t for a long time about quitting DirecTV....didn’t quite agonize over it but I’m old ‘n I guess for my generation, we had this thing about loyalty....never gave it a lot of tho’t before but it’s true....my generation was loyal to the brand....we drove Fords or Chevrolets ‘n when we got older ‘n moved up to heavier, pricier cars, we stayed with the brand.....we did it with lots of things, where we shopped, the p’ticklar brand of canned goods, the coffee or tea, heck, even the type of soda....I grew up in Pepsi country ‘n couldn’t hardly bring m’self to buy Coca Cola....’n I had friends that were just the reverse...
We did the same with our employers.....if we worked for GM, we didn’t look for a job at Ford....if we were Democrats, we stayed Democrats....
As I got older tho’ things began to change...people changed jobs more often ‘n an awful lot of the time, it was becuz the company they worked for changed....they expeted loyalty from their employees but they didn’t feel the same responsibility in return....somewhere along the way, I became a Republican...I told m’self that I only changed parties to vote for John McCain back at the turn of the century but the truth of it, at least the way I see it, is that I didn’t so much change as the Democrat Party changed ‘n the Republican Party became more like the Democrat Party that I grew up with....if that don’t leave a body scratching their head ‘n wondering what in the world is going on, I dunno......
Anyhow, I’m thinking that maybe ‘brand loyalty’ just might be a thing of the past....redundant, as they say in Britain...well, at my age, I’m pretty damn redundant anyway....
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