So, after the water company turned off our water with no notice, SarahK fixed our account the with the water utility and they said water would be back on later that day. Well, this morning we still didn’t have water.
Rowdi was like, “I’m thirsty! Give me water!”
And I was like, “We only have expensive bottled water, and you’re not getting it because you’re a dog!”
Still, I took her out this morning, and, as I was walking on our lawn, my foot suddenly went through this plastic sheet on the ground and kicked some metal knob. When I got back inside, OUR WATER WAS BACK ON!
Also, when I accidentally opened that plastic sheet, I might have dropped a note in there saying, “Roll the dice and pay me $4 times the number shown because I OWN YOU, BITCH!”
Really, shouldn’t the water supply to a house be protected by something with a better torch and tools rating than -5 minutes?
That’s why I pay my bills with paper checks using the primitive mail.
I’m too young to have responsibility, I don’t pay any water bills.
You should come up with some lame ass story about how you were near death from no water, dress the “little misses” up like the local queen of the trailer trash and call Channel 9 for an exclusive! Make sure there are lots and lots of crying and carrying on and such!
I’ve read that no place in Florida is more than 90 miles from the beach.
So….
Why didn’t you walk to the beach 90 miles or less. Set up some sort of crude MacGuyverish distilation equipment (egg, milkjug, tubesock) and make your own drinking water.
Then you’d be in business!
Better turn the water back off before they come to turn it back on…
The electric company lost our connection notice when we moved a couple of years ago, and decided we were freeloaders and turned the power off. When I came home from lunch, I noticed it and called, and they found their mistake, but said it would be a couple of days (!!) before they could get someone back out to reconnect it.
My “logical discussion” failed to sway them, so I went outside and turned it back on. When they finally came by and found that it was already on, the home office made them remove the meter, and I had to pay $50 for them to bring it back. Fortunately, we found the “repair” guy in town, and talked him into calling the office and confirming our ransom payment, so it was only off for an hour or so.
Still, I’m looking forward to being able to afford a big windmill and a giant battery!
Utility nazis are becoming the last of a dying breed of power crazy bureaucrats. Yes, even private utilities are no different than government bureaucrats. They screw up, you suffer. Some say they have even eclipsed building department employees in their power mad ways. Or it is Bush’s fault, take your pick. BTW, couldn’t you give the dog a beer?
Come on now captamerica, I think “Utility nazi” is a little harsh. I had a city water guy come by the other day, said my water would be off for a couple of hours. Right on time, the water was back on, coating my bathroom sink with something that felt like axle bearing grease and smelled like rotting fish! I called the water dept., a guy was here in minutes, told me not to worry , and was outta here in 3 minutes! I was awestruck by the efficiency. What, the Nazis were real efficient too? Oh…. nevermind.
When I originally tried to get DSL through the phone company, they wouldn’t let me because we had a line-splitter on our phone line. They said, “If we take yours off, we’d have to do it for everybody.” We were stuck with 24k dial-up until we wheedled the local phone guy into taking of the line-splitter.
Let me see if I understand this… You have your water turned off. Frank, aren’t you like the Clark Kent to Super Man…the Toby McGuire to Spider Man…The Frank J. to AquaMan? One phone call to your “friend” and your troubles are over…
Don’t get me started on the cable company! Holy snikes! “Can you be home between March and June for your cable installation, sir?” “Uh, I guess so, what year?”
See, this is why I keep having babies!! The old “I have an infant in the house” works every time! I’m not kidding, I’ve used that for phone hook up, water heater issues, electric, it’s your all around excellent reason for the nice man in the fancy utility uniform to come to your house first 🙂
My brother’s had the most horrible time with his utilities. He wanted to make payments online, but they told him he couldn’t unless he signed up for their online service, so he did. Then he made a payment. Then they told him he should cancel the online service because he wouldn’t get paper bills otherwise. So he did. Then because he had cancelled the online service, they didn’t credit his online payment to his account.
So he went down to our grandfather’s funeral, and he gets a notice that his power is going to be cut off if he doesn’t pay his power bill. Immediately he calls them up and tells them he made the payments and even gives them the confirmation numbers he was sent. They tell him they never received the payments and he has to make a payment now or they’ll shut him off. He tries to make a payment over the phone with his debit card, but they take every debit card but the ones from his bank. They tell him he should come into their office, and he tells them he can’t because he’s out of town for a funeral. And all this time they’re calling him a deadbeat, telling him he’s got a responsibility to pay his bills like he’s some 18-year-old freshman. He’s doing everything humanly possible to cram money down their throats, and they’re calling him a deadbeat.
Yeah, we figured out we could turn our water back on too. It helps that my dad is a plumber and he’s like “go outside and turn the water knob to the “on” position”. And we were like, “oh duh, thanks Daddy”. Cool.
Scotty’s or home depot will sell you a nice water turner on-er tool for about $7. It’s about 3′ long so you dont even have to bend over.