My son said I wouldn't be able to do this. "One of the hardest things to do on-line," he told me, "is to quit AOL. They'll offer you reduced rates, free months...they'll tell you that you need their virus protection...they'll do anything to keep you enrolled."
However, my son also knows something else about me: I don't suffer fools well. So when I called (800) 827-6364, I was locked, loaded, primed, and ready to haul anchor. I navigated the telephone odyssey around the Cape of Good Hope, east of Madagascar, west of Sri Lanka, and confronted a service representative at his hideout in India.
His first salvo, which began, "Your account is veddy veddy important to..." was answered with, "Just cancel it." His "But our McAfee..." was stuffed by "I'm cancelling because of the journal ads. Do it. Now!" His desperate "I am prepared to offer..." was cut off by, "Haven't you people already been fined for making it too difficult to cancel?"
He was veddy soddy. My cancellation number is 303369689. Somewhere, I hear Roger Daltry singing, "I'm free! I am free-ee. And I'm waiting for you to follow me."
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I'll have to remember this when I finally screw up the nerve to cancel my subscription...
Thanks for the reminders. I've still got to finish copying the old blog before I shed the ISP from hell.
This was veddy veddy entertaining and instructive.
Bravo, baby. Bravo.
Just double check your bill when it arrives. I cancelled before I ever subscribed, and I have proof of that, but they've billed me anyway and I've yet to straighten it out. Grrrrrrrrr. So are you coming over to blogspot?
:)
Judi
DOH! You're ON blogspot, and I know this, but I've been reading AOL journals and clicked on yours and was thinking...never mind...I plead blondeom; I'm BLONDE, and that was a veddy veddy blonde moment! So solly!
;p
Judi
Wooooooooo Hooooooo Go Paul Go Paul! Man I soooooo admire you!
I need to follow your lead, it would make the hubby so happy too!
I am slowly getting there...I have just the one left...and it is all copied over...what holds me??
Sigh...I think I will come back here to get my mojo going and for inspiration. LOL
COngrats! You DID it!
How in the world can I delete my AOL journal after all those incredibly colorful comments left by a certain cowboy?
As the Mariner well knows, it is all how you look at things, even an albatross, that determines their worth and value.
I've encountered some wonderful souls at aol, including the Mariner himself, therefore I shall never be able to delete it.
I can't help but notice the blogger banner a the top of the site - is the new boss the same as the old boss?
Just as long as you don't get fooled again.
Ok, no more, I promise.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Good for you, Paul.
V
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