Help me choose which Dish network package is the best.
“It took you long enough,” was Gina’s smug response when I called her to ask which Dish Networks package was best. I’d been hemming and hawing for months over if Dish TV was worth giving up my morning Frapuccino to afford and Gina, whose house I went to when I wanted to see something that wasn’t on regular network TV, had been on me for months to get Dish TV for myself.
“Save it, chica,” I said dryly”, and just help me figure out which package is worth sacrificing my morning fix for. I looked
at their website and I can’t decide if I want Classic Bronze 100 Plus or Classic Silver 200.”
“Girl, you have to go with Classic Gold 250!” Gina’s shriek was loud enough I had to switch my phone to the other ear because of the ringing in my ear she’d caused. “It’s the only package with History International, which is perfect for you because you’re such a Russian history freak, I mean geek.”
“Haha, funny. I thought The History Channel had all that stuff ?”
“Nope. It’s all American history. Remember when you came over for that show on the teasers?”
“The–do you mean the czars?” Leave it to Gina to completely mangle the pronunciation. “Yeah, I do. That was History International?”
“Yeah. It has lots of movie channels too, like Turner Classics and American Movie Classics, and that BBCAmerica you always
want to watch when Crotchwood, no, Touchwood, no, forget it ! The one with lots of aliens and the really cute World War Two
guy who runs everything. If it wasn’t for him, I’d tell you to go somewhere else. Man, he is so gorgeous!”
I laughed. “I’ll have to send you some pictures of John Barrowman in a tux. You’ll drown your keyboard in drool when you see them, and if you want to see more of him, you should watch Doctor Who, and he’s on lots of other British programs, too.”
“When one of those is on, let me know. Classic Gold 250 also has lots of news channels so you can find out about every time someone burps from a bunch of different talking heads. If you want to hear how a left wing conspiracy caused the burp.”
“I’ll talk to my Dad. Anyway, you really think I should go for the biggest package? There are so many sports channels and you know the only one I like is football, the *real* kind, not that rugby for wusses Americans call ‘football’. And it’s hard to find a game with all the basketball and baseball and wussie rugby and college sports.”
“That’s why you’ll want lots of sport stations, so you can watch soccer. See, not a total waste after all.”
“Good point. Okay, I’ll go with the Classic Gold 250. If I don’t like it, I’m making you pay the difference between that and whatever I downgrade to.”
“You’ll like it, I promise. So get off the phone with me and call them. I am going to try calling you in five minutes and your line better be busy because you’re talking to DishTV, you hear me? If I get through, I’m killing you next time I see you.”
“Yes, Mommy.” We both laughed. “Later, girl. I’ll let you know when a guy’s coming over to get everything set up and we’ll do dinner here that night. Sound good?”
“You’re on. Now get calling!”
“I….”. She hung up on me. I shook my head slightly and pressed ‘End’, then began dialing the DishTV number, glacing at my computer screen occasionally to make sure I got it right. Grinning, I leaned back in my chair as the phone rang on the other end and imagined all the great stuff I’d be watching soon.
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