Summary

In "Cable Guy," Hough relays a number of anecdotes from the ten years she worked as a cable installer in Virginia. She recounts one story about a man who was frustrated because his TV was no longer receiving Fox News. His wife approached Hough in her work van after Hough had told him there was nothing she could do that day. The man's wife implied to Hough that the man abuses her. Hough suggests that she saw a number of these relationships during her time as a cable installer, and that she was often assaulted by customers and harassed by coworkers. Hough explains that she always preferred working among blue collar or wage workers, because they treated her kindly compared to those in the "mcmansions" who approached her with contempt (271). Once, Hough was assigned a job at...