Change your cell service, they said. It’ll be easy, they said.

I didn’t want to change cell service, but I had no choice. Old people like me prefer not to change much of anything! I have a natural aversion to big companies, but I wound up with one! We all thought everything was just ducky since it was all working. Then I got an email telling me to get my service changed.
I told them I already had, two weeks ago. Upon checking they determined that my number had not been ported- out, or not ported- out properly – I was never sure which. So – they did it and that’s when everything became not so easy!
Nothing would work!! Nothing.
All kinds of things were going on behind the scenes between three entities and I kept checking with them. Nothing was getting any better. More weeks passed with the email messages continuing, telling me I needed to get it changed. Everyone was trying, but nothing was working. Two more port-out attempts were made before they said, “You are completely out of our system now.” Two days later I got another email telling me to git-r-dun. Sigh. Still – nothing was working.
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