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There may be something worse than poor customer service from a mega-company but, if there is, it hasn't been discovered. You wait on hold listening to the elevator loop of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" in hopes of telling your story from the beginning for the third time.

Too bad you were cut off. You can try again when the self-inflicted bald spots on the side of your head grow back.

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