Handyman
Please, for the love of God, when something breaks and you don’t know how to fix it, don’t pretend you know what you’re doing. You may have “fixed” it for now, but it’s inevitable that it’ll break again. Instead, go for the phone and call someone who does know what they’re doing.
Our phone line is messed up and the first thing I said was “call Bell.” Of course, my dad didn’t listen to me, and attempted to fix the problem. So I went on the Internet and found out you can test the line through the demarcation point. We find that we don’t have one. But, my dad has the brilliant idea of cleaning it. That solves the problem. For a few hours.
So this goes on and off again for the next couple of days until cleaning it didn’t work anymore. So now, we have to wait until Friday to get the phone line uncrapped. So now, we get to live with crappy a phone line for twice the time it should’ve taken to get it fixed properly.
The moral of the story is that if you’re not a Bell technician, don’t fuck around with phone lines. And we can replace Bell technician with the appropriate professional (hence why they’re called professionals) and phone lines with the trade of said professional. And especially phone lines. We’re screwed if we had to call 911, wouldn’t we?
don’t “fuck around” indeed. actually, from my past experience, messign around with stuff and just experimenting has always seemed to work out pretty nicely for me. i haven’t encountered something yet that is impossible for me to tinker with and fix that couldn’t be fixed anyway… well, maybe once, but that was because of Windows.
It’s just annoying because it’s just one of many times when the effort to save money just backfires and screws you over worse than before. Like, there are some things that I wouldn’t risk screwing around with. I know how to fix my computer. I can’t say the same for, say, a car.