A public meeting, or as millennials may call it, a live yelp review, has always been democracy’s greatest stage. A place where crazy people can yell at people in powerful positions about their unsolvable problems without fear of being told to “move it along.”

As Lexington’s most recent city council meeting just hit record attendance numbers during a divisive discussion about whether or not to keep statues of confederate generals up, the city thought they’d ride the wave of town involvement and bring the town together by planning a meeting that would unite the city’s residents against society’s greatest villain, the cable company.

The meeting was initially scheduled for 6pm last night, however the group’s representatives failed to show up, and left a voicemail on Jim Gray’s office line saying they would send a cable representative by tomorrow sometime between 9am and 4pm.

Since the voicemail, the line of communication between the city and Spectrum has shut down. Even media darling Jim Gray has had some trouble getting through to the higher ups over at Spectrum cable services. When the former vice mayor called to ask where people were he was told, “there is an outage in your area, we are currently working on it but there is nothing our representatives can do at the moment” and disconnected the call, then shut off his landline phone service all together.

While not present at the meeting, Spectrum sent a statement to the press explaining that they’d be willing to make a few concessions and want to focus on better serving their customer base, “Look, we’re trying our worst here, you’ll have to bear with us.”

The memo added, “We’re very sorry, however we are currently unable to remove ‘unwanted fees,’ because to us, they’re wanted fees.”

Gray said he and fellow officials are still hopeful that, “Their level of service to the community WILL improve, mostly because it’s impossible for it to get worse.”