No Hot Water!

So yesterday about 3 pm, I decided to heat up something to eat before my twins got home from their Dads (they were with him all week). Click, click....the burner on the gas stove didn't come on. Hmmm. No note on the door saying I'd been disconnected for non-payment. Went out to the meter and sure enough there was a nasty bolt locking my meter up, preventing me from heating water, cooking food, washing clothes....and (GASP) taking a shower (anyone who has teenagers know that this would be the END of the world). So, I call the Gas people to find out what the heck is going on. The CS agent tells me she can find no account for service at my address (huh??). She politely asks me to hold on and of course I say I will.

After an interminable wait and the CS agent calling three different departments with two different companies (Atlanta Gas Light and Gas South), she comes back and tells me that my account had been disconnected and transferred into another person's name with a different provider. (Huh? I never requested this).

So, this being the Memorial Day weekend, and FRIDAY and it's 4:00 pm by this time, I'm growing concerned at the prospect of spending a whole weekend without gas. No cooking, no showers, no laundry (that part would be OK, but not the rest). Gas South has a terrible record of sending technicians out to reconnect service--it usually takes a week to get an "appointment", and that's IF they show up at the "appointment time". *sigh*

Eventually, she tells me there will be someone there by 8pm and to call back by 8pm if nobody shows up. Meantime, she needs to discuss with me the fact that I will now be receiving TWO bills from Gas South. One for my current service and one for service from January through May (you know, since they decided to close my account but leave service turned on). Lovely. Fortunately, it is summer and we don't use a lot of natural gas at thsi time of year, but I am going to have one heck of a humdinger of a gas bill for January through May of this year. Sheesh. Only me.

At any rate, the guy showed up pretty darned quick, turned the gas on. Lit the pilot light on my stove...and then informed me he couldn't light the hot water heater because its not up to code. Lovely.

Ever tried getting a maintenance man at an apartment complex at 4pm on Friday before a holiday weekend? Let me just say I wasn't looking forward to it. So, I trot over to the management office and tell them my tale of woe (which is only one of many tales of woe I am currently managing, but I won't hit you with them all at once, I'm trying to gain readers, not run 'em off).

I will say this....Lynd Property Management have the right attitude....they came right over, fixed things up and had the hot water heater going before my teenagers ever arrived home!

Courtesy of a LOT of nice people, my teens had their nice hot showers and they were none the wiser to the fact their showers were imperiled! Lucky them!

And....there ya go....more junk from my life! He he....wait till I tell you about today. Today...its a doozy. I can't go there yet. Not in writing, at least.

No, I think now its time to take my blood pressure medicine, a benadryl, brush my teeth and head to bed. I've had a nice hot shower already too!

Nite again (to my one and only follower: Me!)

Jeny