When sitting on the front porch pays off

United States
February 22, 2022 6:41pm CST
I was sitting on the front porch today and seen a man from the phone company pull in to the yard next door, we both waved and then in a few miniutes he pulled into my yard. I'm so glad that I was sitting on the porch. I started talking to him and ask what he thought could be the problem with my internet. I told him for about the last month my internet connection would just go off. I donlt know why, but it seened like this happened a lot while I was on Facebook, it would all of a sudden state something on the lines of there is no internet signal. He told me he was doing a little maintenance and checking different boxes and mine was one. He told me he was checking the box at the road and then he would go check everythng hooked up behing the house to. He came back and said the connecters by the house was old and in bad shape. He even came in and hooked something to my wifi box. After he left, I was thinking if I wouldn't have been out there and talked to him, he would have done like he did next door. When he had pulled in next door, he had got out checked the box at the road and left. So I'm pretty sure that's what he would have done with mine to if I wouldn't have there.
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7 responses
@kareng (54307)
• United States
23 Feb 22
You got lucky!! Yay!
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@kareng (54307)
• United States
24 Feb 22
• United States
23 Feb 22
I think I got lucky to, like I said, if I wouldn't have been out there I believe he would have opened the box at the road and then just left.
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@sol_cee (38223)
• Philippines
23 Feb 22
Lucky! Do you always sit on the front porch?
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• United States
23 Feb 22
A lot of times I will go sit on the porch in the morning and drink my coffee. When it gets worm weather, like it was yesterday, I'm out there a lot. I love the fresh air.
@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
23 Feb 22
Good for you. Hope your net is better now.
• United States
23 Feb 22
So far I think it is doing better, it hasn't lost connection yet.
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@allen0187 (58438)
• Philippines
23 Feb 22
@sweetashoney good to know.
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@Tina30219 (81539)
• Onaway, Michigan
24 Feb 22
Good thing you were out on the porch and talked to him and now it is fixed.
• United States
24 Feb 22
Yea, knock on wood it's still doing good, the internet has went back out since.
• United States
24 Feb 22
@Tina30219 Yea, everyone just cross their fingers for me, I hated when it would go out and I was in the middle of doing something.
@Tina30219 (81539)
• Onaway, Michigan
24 Feb 22
@sweetashoney Glad to hear it is still working good I hope it stays that way for you.
@GreatMartin (23677)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
23 Feb 22
That's what front porches are for---meeting and greeting neighbors and getting to know your phone people!!!
• United States
23 Feb 22
Oh yea, I love sitting out on the front porch, my neighberhood is really quite and you can sit and watch birds and other things. I live way out in the country, so I sometimes sit and watch the traffic go by. I love it when it's bikers week and I see a lot of them pass by and also when they have the old car show at the beach, some of ones heading that way will pass by to I think it's cool.
@RasmaSandra (73201)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Feb 22
Glad you got that taken care of and hope you Internet stays on now
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• United States
23 Feb 22
It's been working good so far, in fact it seems like it's a little bit faster now. What's bad is I had went to the phone company and switched out my old modem for a new one, they was telling me how much faster my internet would be. Even after getting a new one it was still real slow, all that he fixed must have been the problem all a long since it's working better.
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• United States
24 Feb 22
That certainly was lucky you were sitting outside. Hope you don't have any more internet problems