...if maybe her door buzzard got stuck on "On'...........



(DAMN, I miss pinboy......! He would've been all OVER this one! )

cast asparagus on the poor customer.

Shame on them. They are the quilty ones!

🤡🤣

Even if the bill was enough to breaker my bank account.

These takes on the poor customer's
out (r)age (ous) bill. Beyond hoots!

I see what I did. ⬆ Out(t)age.

did we put the lights up wrong?

Seriously though, someone really goofed. I hope she can fight this.

Edit: I just read the whole article. Thank goodness they corrected this. At least she has a sense of humor about it.

to get even one month's payment.

for the reward points!

Woke up to no hot h2o.
Got 24/7 plumber.
Fixed.
Thanks be.

Unless it's just a clever publicity shunt? Trying to transformer public opinion?

... I hope she's able to conductor self in a civil manner!

like 100 degrees and still be cold. I would go visit and go home soaking wet from sweat.

the temperature in the house today never went above 67

Then 10 minutes later say she was cold and crank it up a couple more. Then sometimes when it got hot enough to melt steel she would
turn the air on and start complaining about the draft in a few minutes. Maybe she just wanted me to leave.

My mom did the same thing when she had to come up from FLA. She'd jack the thermostat way up and we'd be bustin'.

Down in FLA , they'd turn on the AC 'for us' when we stayed at their place. My mom also turned the h2o heater off until they took showers or she got ready to wash dishes. By hand. She used the dishwasher to store paper bags and stuff like that. They reminded me of 'Seinfeld's' parents when they moved to their FLA condo.🤣

When I was on dial-up and she called and got a busy signal, she'd go, "You were on that computer, weren't you." 😆 "Ma, I was TALKING on the PHONE." 🙄

One time they came up North to visit and I had choir practice. When I came home, the kitchen floor was washed and my mom announced that she loaded and ran my dishwasher, then added a 'naah-naah'. (Like, 'so there, are u happy?') My step-dad told her she had better use it or I'd be upset. 😆 Hahah.

Our former priest and Greek-Italian presvytera had us for Christmas dinner one year. I cleared the table and opened her dishwasher to load it. Now what do you think I saw. Papers, grocery bags and God knows what. I almost fell over. ''She never used it. Always washes dishes by hand.'' Oy. They musta gone to different schools together!

I think I understand somewhat. You stand by the sink. You ruminate, ponder, contemplate.
It's sorta cathartic?


[Did I commandeer this thread? Apologies. Been called out in a place recently.🙄]

... she needs to get out & volt in the next electron!

...imagine all the credit card points she’d earn.

The billing computer accidentally rerouted through Zimbabwe and calculated her bill in Zimbabwe dollars. She really owed $10.49

We gotta get to the airport. About 4500 miles to cover before we get to go beddy-bye.

A safe, problem free, enjoyable trip y'all!

Usually getting to Atlanta isn't the problem. Getting IN and OUT of Atlanta is the problem.

It's usually twofold.

For the last two years in a row, immigration has detained my wife. Two years ago, it was because she was planning to spend just enough days in the USA to make a cumulative 89 days out of 180 (90 is the allowed number without a visa). After an hour in a detention room, she was called before a supervisor, who took all of 30 seconds to see that nothing was wrong, and let her go.

Last year, the CBP idiot, himself an immigrant, put us in detention because, according to him, "her fingerprints didn't match." He brought us to a detention area, and then disappeared for a break, which he probably wasn't authorized to take unless he had to deal with an "unusual situation." The unusual situation, in this case, was my wife, a very un-dangerous tall German blonde woman who had (and I can testify to this in a court of law if necessary) the same fingers on her hands that she had on her the last 50 times she has visited the USA. Again, after an hour, we got called before a supervisor who rolled his eyes, mumbled "sorry," and told us we were OK.

We can't wait to hear what the excuse will be this time. Maybe the CBP guy will claim that she isn't using the same eyes for the retinal scan that she used when she was in the States in July.

Then we get to the Delta transfer desk to hear that our flight is a.) delayed for an unspecified amount of time, or b.) canceled altogether (and all other flights to Charleston are full for the next 36 hours), or c.) that our luggage can't be found, even though we collected it at customs and brought it to the transfer desk ourselves.

When we get to Charleston with all our luggage (IF we do), we'll be one happy pair of passengers.

They let terrorists thru and aggravate suspicious looking tall gorgeous blond females. Topsy turvy.

Look what so-called 'governance' we got presently.

BTW, your family is be-oo-ti-ful. What lookers!

Enjoy your stateside stay!

~sprink

By the way, I think Atlanta airport ran out of bad things to do to us.

The flight from Frankfurt to Atlanta was on time, the food was good, and we sailed through immigration and customs is record time with no problem at all (what a difference!). We were outta there so fast, we could have made the 5:15 PM flight to Charleston if there had been space. The 7:02 PM flight made Atlanta to Charleston in 35 minutes.

What a day. I had breakfast with my wife and daughters in Germany, and though my girls flew through Washington instead of Atlanta, we all slept in the same hotel here in South Carolina.

We all got a MUCH needed good night's sleep.

My best girl unto forever--dad Polish, mom German.
Mom called her "Schtupsi". I never asked her the meaning. Term of endearment? Relatives came over from Germany and I hostess'd them one Sunday. Pulled out all the stops. I would done 'anything' for my best girl.

Our neighbor (first home) saw us together thru our side yard kitchen window and later he said, "I didn't know you had a sister!" We could've been--looked like twins.

Had no idea you could be so very close to a kindred spirit that you are not biologically related to. It's surprising they're more 'family' than family.

"Schtupsi" might not have been all to complimentary. I hope it wasn't meant that way. I would have broken with my parents if they had called my wife that. "Schtupsen" is REALLY not nice in some circles. Its meaning might change with location and ethnic background, though. I can't really ask my wife because she will ask me WTF are you asking me THAT for?

I.e., 'huncut' (c like 's') means 'rascal' in Slovak.
"A little huncut." A sorta term of endearment.

At least to some Germanic speakers. Don't know about Yiddish, though with those kind of consonants, it wouldn't surprise me.

A 'Stupsi Doll' was manufactured in Germany in the 1970's.

I might've spelled it more phonetically.

I put an 'scht' in front. I yam still navigating my way thru English!

My step-dad (traveling with my mom on vacation) got pulled aside when they were in Algiers. They hopped around from Greece, Mediterranean cruise, then Algeria. Can't remember if they made a stop in Turkey.
Anyway, he got pulled in Algeria, asked for docs, then let go. What the what. He of British birth, but of somewhat not fair skin-tone, dark wavy hair at the time. I guess there was profiling back in the early seventies also.

Find another outlet for your creativity or I'm gonna call a copper.

Not making jocular on purpose out of the poor customer's dilemma, but it cannot be helped.

This situation keeps writing itself.

The company attributes this to a "moved decimal point". Seriously? Six fucking powers of ten? Has this company ever heard of Microsoft Excel? That kind of shit just doesn't happen from a "glitch".

I believe this warrants an audit of the electricity provider's accounting practices.I suspect it was some other process they use to massage the numbers that screwed up

. . .the company only is projecting annualized revenues of $14.1 billion for 2017. For the entire company!!!

And she gets a bill for 20x the total revenue stream, because of a decimal error?

A hack?

How many times do I have to tell you??

Oh, wait - maybe it's something else...