All Because I Wanted to Watch Dudes Beat Up On Other Dudes

Lashona, the fourth person I've talked to in my long, long phone call with Time Warner Cable, is proving herself to be a reasonable human being.

"I gotta do some actual math here," she says. "Because you are really paying too much just to be having basic cable."

As she carries the two and picks through packages, I say, "It sounds like you're booking travel arrangements for us where we fly out of Newark and back into LaGuardia or something."