the telly and valium

last thursday the doorbell rings. It's the cable guy and he asks if my cable service is ok. Yeah, I says but it's not what I think it should be. He says he'll have a look and comes in, he looks at the telly and at the cable box and says "you got Hi Def telly and Lo Def cable, you need to drop by the office and pick up a Hi Def box." Ok, so the next day we drive down to the cable office and the lady says "can't give you a Hi Def box because our system is down." Ok, so today while the lady Diane is out she goes by the cable office and gets the Hi Def box and brings it home with a set of cables to hook it up. No instructions as I sit here with a cable box and a cable with 5 colour coded jacks at each end and NO INSTRUCTIONS. So I call the cable co and a guy says he can walk me through it. Ok, an hour later I have a telly picture with no sound, call the cable office back. "We'll have to sent out a tech tomorrow." Ok, I decided to fiddle around and find the audio cables (he never mentioned) and get them plugged in, now I have a picture and sound. It's been 3 1/2 hours of cabling/uncabling/cabling/uncabling but I now have HI DEF telly.
Ok, sit back, cuppa tea, fiddle with telly and lady Diane comes in and says "by the way, the Hi Def box is an extra $7 per month."