I think that I need grief counseling......
Last week I decided to take the advice of (Tron?) who said to stop at your local cable company and see if they had any dishes that they might not want. I did this, and had to go through a receptionist, who then went off to ask someone else. He told her that "we got rid of all of those" For those of you who aren't from Pennsylvania, this means that they disposed of them in some way. I then asked if I might be able to talk to him personally, but by then he was talking on the phone, so I decided to come back another day.
One week had passed, and I was driving past our metal recycling center. I decided that I'd just stop in on the off chance that someone might have done some spring cleaning and thrown out a Primestar dish. I asked Jim (the man in charge) if he'd seen any dishes. He said that, just last week, they had cut up a truck load of them. He said that a company had brought them in, and that one was made of stainless steel. He said that it took two of them to handle it. Apparently there had been quite a few, and all sounded like something that could have been used for KU and C band reception.
I had been so stunned by the thought of cutting up a stainless steel dish, that it didn't register with me about all of the other dishes that must have been destroyed. The really bad part that didn't register until about ten minutes ago (when I got home) was that those dishes came from the very cable company that I had been at the week before. If I would have waited to talk to the guy on the phone (or even came back later) he would have told me that they went to be recycled.
I think that I'll go die now.....
Well, maybe not.
Jim said that dishes come in spurts, and that he'd give me a call the next time anything comes in.
Last week I decided to take the advice of (Tron?) who said to stop at your local cable company and see if they had any dishes that they might not want. I did this, and had to go through a receptionist, who then went off to ask someone else. He told her that "we got rid of all of those" For those of you who aren't from Pennsylvania, this means that they disposed of them in some way. I then asked if I might be able to talk to him personally, but by then he was talking on the phone, so I decided to come back another day.
One week had passed, and I was driving past our metal recycling center. I decided that I'd just stop in on the off chance that someone might have done some spring cleaning and thrown out a Primestar dish. I asked Jim (the man in charge) if he'd seen any dishes. He said that, just last week, they had cut up a truck load of them. He said that a company had brought them in, and that one was made of stainless steel. He said that it took two of them to handle it. Apparently there had been quite a few, and all sounded like something that could have been used for KU and C band reception.
I had been so stunned by the thought of cutting up a stainless steel dish, that it didn't register with me about all of the other dishes that must have been destroyed. The really bad part that didn't register until about ten minutes ago (when I got home) was that those dishes came from the very cable company that I had been at the week before. If I would have waited to talk to the guy on the phone (or even came back later) he would have told me that they went to be recycled.
I think that I'll go die now.....
Well, maybe not.
Jim said that dishes come in spurts, and that he'd give me a call the next time anything comes in.
