Comcast Does Not Want Us to Watch Lost

We have lived in our apartment for almost 2 years now. In that time our cable has been disconnected 4 times, once right after we moved and 3 times in the last month. How does this happen you ask? When our upstairs neighbors moved out Comcast came to disconnect their cable. The cable guy decides, "Hey 95A doesn't need cable either". Ironically, the upstairs neighbor didn't even have Comcast, but satellite. This is on a Thursday, so no Lost for us that night.

The next day the Comcast guy fixes our connection and explains to us what happened. He says he re-labeled our connection so this should not happen again. Good! We even have a better signal because he replaced some connections. A week or so later we get new upstairs neighbors. The Comcast guy cuts our cable so he can hook up theirs. I don't mean "cut" in the figurative sense. The dude physically cut our line. Guess what day it was: Thursday. No Lost for us again.

Again the tech comes on Friday and fixes our cable. At the time we speculated that when that tech fixed our cable he must have disconnected our upstairs neighbor's cable. We make this speculation because the next Thursday we lost our service and our neighbor had a slip from Comcast on their door (as if the Comcast guy paid them a visit but they weren't home.) We check the cable box outside and low and behold our line is cut again.

The Comcast guy comes out to fix it the next day. At least they're fairly prompt. If you haven't figured it out, we missed Lost again. So what did Comcast do for our troubles? They gave us a 3 week credit on our next bill. Not even a whole friggin' month's credit! If this happens again we're canceling our service.

I don't know if you follow Lost or not, but it's been on a "break" since Episode 8 aired on March 20th. It seems our Comcast outages have also gone on a break - perhaps until Lost comes back on next week. Oh, and it turns out our upstairs neighbors don't even have cable. Who know Comcast hated Lost so much.