I want my money back Time Warner!!!

I love the way cable companies sucker you in with these tiered package deals. It starts off innocently enough, Basic cable at a low rate. But from there, they progressively find ways to take more of your money and offer less incentives.

They get you with Advanced Basic, then Advanced Basic with Extended channels, then the HD package with HD-DVR. Before I know it, I am paying some $150 for something I hardly watch.

Eventually, you find yourself somehow signing up for the Premium Movie Channels with On Demand. Everything up until now has been tolerable to me, but this "Movie Channel" thing that I somehow let myself get suckered into is starting to get irritating. I seldom find a movie On HBO, Showtime, Stars, TMC, or Cinemax that I actually would sit down and watch.

Giving up on the channel schedules, I decide to see what is on the "Premium Movies On-Demand" service. Now these movies are free when you subscribe to the Movie Channels Package. But the selection is equally abysmal. I always look at the movie description to get a summary and to see how many stars the movie received. It is remarkable how many one or two star movies that these "premium" movie channels show between them. I am positive that Tim Allen is somewhere laughing at me.

I am thinking about writing an angry email to some important asshole at Time Warner. I'm going to let them know that I would rather fist a jar of mayonnaise than watch a Mario Van Peebles movie.