SURPRISE!

Surprises? I enjoy them, well most of them - well really, I enjoy every surprise except for the one I got when I came home tonight. As I open the front door I see that the mailman has been here for the first time in a week and a gazillion pieces of mail (well 6) fall towards me. After I get in the door and take off my boots and coat I sort through the mail, it is our normal mail - bank statements, something from my work insurance and something from our personal investor, and a bill from Hydro One, that last one is where it all went wrong. Let me explain.

Two months ago we got an insanely high hydro bill (at the time I thought it was insane that is!)and I called and we worked out a payment and everything seemed fine; until today! So today comes around and I open our new bill and I find that this one is 4-figures, that is right folks - four numbers, a decimal and two more numbers, for TWO MONTHS worth of Hydro. Now maybe to some people this isn't overly high (if this is you, you spend too much on Hydro!), but for me, at our last house, our average bill was $110 per bill (every two months). So I call them and I inform them that there has CLEARLY been a mistake, to which they inform me that it is indeed correct and there is nothing wrong with my meter, they are cocky about this and their brand-new smart meters that are NOT wrong - she even went so far as to guarantee that it was correct, so I asked to have someone come and look at it to make sure, she obliged and scheduled a work order.

That is all I get - after 30 minutes on the phone; you fix nothing, you tell me I am wrong, and you schedule a work order telling me that they will find nothing wrong.

So in another 2 weeks I will likely suck it up, pay the $ X,XXX.XX, and shortly after drink away my sorrows on a Mexican beach!!! I so need this vacation to come faster; the faster the better!!

Sorry for this to be a downer entry, I don't intend on being a negative person, but I could not believe my surprise and thought I would share it with the group. Off I go to find ways to save/make money so I can afford our Hydro bill!

S