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Um, a snippet or something
9 Nov 2015 08:45 pmI lost track of the days. That happens rather frequently to me, but I had not a single oh-it's-Sunday thought yesterday.
Last week, I started crocheting a pair of legwarmers for Sprout. She can wear them out when it turns cooler here, but I'm mostly making them for her ballet class. With days in the mid-20s (70F) and nights dipping down to 20 (68F) or so, I'm able to handle yarn again without having it clinging to me.
One more week and we can starting moving. But we'll have to deal with some WH--!? business first. The electric bill collector showed up tonight and handed me a bill for 1007 LE. Our normal monthly bill runs 110-140 LE. They are trying to tell me that without using the A/C or anything like that, we have to pay 10 times more than normal? My neighbor, who was paying at the same time, said that his bill looked perfectly normal. The collector lied to neighbor and said that he hadn't checked our meter in a long time and now we had to pay our "true" consumption rate rather than an assumed total. He checks the meter every couple of months; and now, after we've been here for 3 years, he's going to tell us all the sudden we've changed our habits and need to make good. Funnily enough (/sarcasm), two people told me that our landlady probably called the electric company and told them we are about to move so to make sure we're all paid up (because otherwise it will fall on her to pay. As if we would have left the bill hanging. ARGH. I know other people do it, though; we were presented with the bill from the last tenant). But how did they get from 100 to 1000? We have to get to the bottom of it. :-< I don't want to pay something we truly don't owe, but I don't want to leave someone else holding the bag, either.
And this shall be a lesson to us: Never trust the meter man again. Always write down the meter number ourselves and verify what he writes down.
Last week, I started crocheting a pair of legwarmers for Sprout. She can wear them out when it turns cooler here, but I'm mostly making them for her ballet class. With days in the mid-20s (70F) and nights dipping down to 20 (68F) or so, I'm able to handle yarn again without having it clinging to me.
One more week and we can starting moving. But we'll have to deal with some WH--!? business first. The electric bill collector showed up tonight and handed me a bill for 1007 LE. Our normal monthly bill runs 110-140 LE. They are trying to tell me that without using the A/C or anything like that, we have to pay 10 times more than normal? My neighbor, who was paying at the same time, said that his bill looked perfectly normal. The collector lied to neighbor and said that he hadn't checked our meter in a long time and now we had to pay our "true" consumption rate rather than an assumed total. He checks the meter every couple of months; and now, after we've been here for 3 years, he's going to tell us all the sudden we've changed our habits and need to make good. Funnily enough (/sarcasm), two people told me that our landlady probably called the electric company and told them we are about to move so to make sure we're all paid up (because otherwise it will fall on her to pay. As if we would have left the bill hanging. ARGH. I know other people do it, though; we were presented with the bill from the last tenant). But how did they get from 100 to 1000? We have to get to the bottom of it. :-< I don't want to pay something we truly don't owe, but I don't want to leave someone else holding the bag, either.
And this shall be a lesson to us: Never trust the meter man again. Always write down the meter number ourselves and verify what he writes down.