All the news that’s fit to print…
Somehow the Tribune cancelled my subscription. It’s been about a week or so.
It happened once before right before the winter holidays last year. What happened was the credit card had expired and I didn’t open the snail mail correspondence indicating as much.
Does that happen with you? You establish an online relationship and disregard things that come in the mail from that purveyor. Well, that’s the case with yours truly, Tom McCarey, and the Chicago Tribune last year.
When we returned from Christmas in Rome I got on the phone with the Trib and thought we had resolved the situation. I gave them a different credit card and expected to keep up with Tribune-reported events like the Chicago real estate market and Chicago single family home and condo sales.
Except the paper didn’t come.
Has that ever happened to you? You spend a half-hour on the phone fixing a situation only to find out that you spent a half hour on the phone and have nothing to show for it except minutes used on your cell phone? That’s the primary reason I hate calling Verizon or credit card companies for incorrect bills. Or the Tribune.
Turns out the half hour didn’t fix the problem. Somewhere somebody at the other end of the phone transcribed my credit card info and address and didn’t do anything with it. Well, I figured I would get them back by not renewing my subscription.
That lasted until the Cubs’ season started. I wanted to keep track of the on-field doings of athletic fellows younger than me but older than my babies (which you know if you’ve read posts in The Real Estate Lounge Chicago this summer). And that required the sports pages. So I renewed.
At the time I gave them credit card info. At least I am pretty sure I did. Maybe I am wrong. Afterall, the subscription stopped and one bit of snail mail I did open with the Tribune logo on it says I owe.
So I owe. And I guess I will pay the fee and absolutely make sure that it is on a rollover credit card plan so that these momentary inconveniences are abated.
Speaking of momentary inconveniences I have noticed more than a handful of online videos where kids are taking a pro-Obama message to their parents. Last week I saw Amy Silverman who is participating in the Great Schlep. And today it was those crazy kids at “Gossip Girl” taking a stand in front of the camera.
It’s interesting because so often in the past participation in this great democratic experiment was more or less kept a bit more private. Maybe it’s the economy. Or the war in Iraq. Or our international reputation. Or whatever the reason might be but I am heartened by the change whereby what previously had been private contemplation is simply and resolutely made public.
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