Those FM transmitter things are the work of the devil. My Sirius is factory installed so I don’t deal with that now, but in my last vehicle, I had a DVD unit that used that to do the sound. It got so bad that I ended up going to a car stereo shop to have it fixed. If I remember right (unlikely) what they did was run a wire from the DVD transmitter directly to the vehicle’s antenna. Someone will be along shortly to explain why I must be wrong as what I’ve described would clearly lead to immediate vehicle anialation, but that’s what I remember.
Anyway, they fixed the problem for a minor charge. Well worth it.
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>so darn absurd that it’s almost comical
Yeah, well, that’s the thing. I think it IS funny, especially the guy calling me to say he can’t conduct any business with me. I guess he HAS to ask if there is anything else he can help me with. It’s some poor guy sitting there making 5 calls a minute with some computer keeping his queue full of people it has just disturbed. And he has some sheet of prattle he has to read out loud whether it makes sense or not. And in spite of myself, I can’t help but be exasperated with him, because he’s a living thinking conscious being and he’s also being paid to pretend he’s living and thinking and conscious on behalf of a weird modern entity that is none of those, which will fire his pathetic ass if he doesn’t ask if he can help me with anything else. And if his life and thought and consciousness break through after God only knows how many days of doing this, and he cries out to me, “Sorry sir but I have to try to help you not do anything because Sirius is as dumb as toast” - well, then, some supervisor will point him out on his stool, number 87 in row 12, and two overseers will walk over to him and escort him out into the glaring Bangalore morning sun, and he will have to walk home and explain to his family why they may need to move again. And it’ll be my fault.
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