An account change notice from Verizon inspired a brief and generous presumption that my bill would be lowered due to a large chunk of monthly payment having been extracted.
That was, of course, a ridiculous notion.
In any case, friendly advice to the genital pubic: if an exing-relation wished to extract eir service from a shared martial{sic} account, said relation could get an independent line and tether Internet access to eir house over 4G, getting faster speeds than what s/he pays for DSL now.
S/he may not be able to do that on eir current account, as each line may have a usage cap since the unfortunate demise several months ago of Verizon’s omni-benificent data-usage grandfather.
Also, s/he could get eir own auto insurance, and probably at a cheaper rate than half of what the other-half pays now, and considering the other-half was probably court-ordered to pay half of what that half had been salaried, and will be paying half (or less than half) now that said half’s company may have expired — well, when the other-half finds a new job that likely will pay half-of-half of that previous half, such a cost-cutting measure would not be for the other-half’s sake but for the sake of all involved.
And eir medical insurance may expire at the end of the month.
And s/he should consider public assistance.
And s/he should definitely find a job that pays the money required to keep eir children in food and clothing and under shelter.
Especially if s/he hasn’t managed to do so in twelve or more months since kicking eir sole provider out of the house, presumably because s/he has been too busy holding eir children hostage from the other parent with the friendly help of the Mrs Doubtfire gub’mint.
Speaking of which: When one is allowed to see ones children only through professionally supervised visitation, and such a court-ordered condition is predicated on demonstrably false accusations involving no danger of harm to said person or eir shared children– Well, they would be demonstrated false (in this hypothetical case) if the state cared to afford a parent accused of such wispy, nebulous charges an audience to do so, and considered the emotional support of a single parent (even a *shudder* “father”) more important to their well-being than an inconceivably remote chance of danger to them that was never actually claimed by anyone—
Er.
When that is the case, one should consider whether or not the money paid for such visitation might better be spent on feeding ones children.