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Right now i want... hehe, yet another funny thing that needs to be posted

Have you ever had to cancel an AOL account? I have. it wasn't fun, it was traumatic and required much wallowing afterwards... i felt like i had been through a bad break up with the once charming Brian on the phone with me (yes, amazingly enough, 4 or so years after the fact, i still remember my phone reps name). At the time, i didn't have a blog, so i wasn't able to tell the world about what had happened.

:) Luckily, someone did it for me. Here's a sample, from about a third of the page down:

...I had called to cancel my AOL account that I started so I could sign onto the internet from home when I got my new computer. And let me tell you, if you're ever bored and need something to do, or sad and need cheering up-- create an AOL account and then cancel it. Those AOL people are so rabid and overzealous that they're like circus performers or something. I had to actually have a pseudo conversation with their robotic answering machine (in which I specifically said that I was calling to cancel my account), before I was put on hold until a customer service rep could get to me. After eight minutes of elevator music, I connected to an older woman named Marion who was so damn cheerful that I thought AOL might be supplying her with crack.

When she answered, she asked why I was calling. Annoyed that I had already told the robot that I was canceling, I informed Marion of this as well. Marion gasped as if I had just stabbed her first-born in the chest, and asked me why I had chosen to do something this rash. I explained to her that I was in school now, and they had an ethernet connection and I didn't need AOL anymore. She kept protesting and interjecting with long speeches about keywords or live chat or some such nonsense, and then I would tell her again that I was canceling. I began to feel as if Marion and I had had a long, intimate relationship for the past couple years and I was breaking up with her....

glad to see AOL is still torturing its clientele.