Nick Switzer

Well last Friday or Saturday, I notice a notice (haha I made a funny) on the front door about our gas. Immediately I think, “Crap we forgot to pay the bill.” So I don’t even look at the check boxes indicating the reason for the shutoff. Well I put the notice on ::justin(”)::’s bedroom door (the account is in his name so we could not have a setup fee because he already had an account) and wait for him to wake up. So I finally talk to him and he calls the Gas company. Turns out it wasn’t due to no payment.

It turns out, it says we do not have an Application with them, which means that we do not have an account. WHAT THE H. E. Double Hockey-sticks (haven’t heard that in awhile have you?)? So who’s account have we been paying, no one knows for sure. So they set an account up for us, but it will be several days before our gas comes back on. That means NO HOT SHOWERS. Okay, well we suffer through it, either taking cold showers, or showering at other people’s houses (glad Casey doesn’t live that far from me).

That’s not all. Apparently, the gas company decided to call the water company. The water company decided that they won’t check who’s address they’re at, and shutoff someone in the vicinity of who they really should shut off. Well that turns out to be us again. Our water was shut off because they didn’t pay attention to what house they were at, and missed it by a street. It’s pretty bad not being able to take a hot shower, but not having any water at all, come on! Also, the inconvenience of not being able to use the restroom at your house is also very high on the “this sucks” list. I have to quote Justin’s text message that I received in class about this: “All that’s left is insurance getting cancelled because I pay on time, or our electric get turned off because we have too many computers.” Well I personally think you can never have too many computers, but that’s a different topic. So as you can see, the utility companies have a vendetta against awesome people (that’s my only conclusion, and it’s irrefutable). Will gladly post when our electricity goes (I’ll use a laptop obviously since I won’t have my computer powered). Then I will have to take showers by candle light (for some reason no one wants me to take a shower happily at the utility companies).