Verizon is on strike so this is the quick fix.

Gosh, those Verizon guys who can’t fix anything sure are nice.

Two days after Mother Nature snapped the data cable that runs 25 feet from the street to my home  — severing the home phone connection that I barely use — they rang my bell and greeted me with smiles. You heard right: smiles.

Next came a pair of handshakes with uncalloused hands, then introductions, a declaration, and a revelation: “I’m Jim, and he’s Steve. We are managers! There’s a strike!”