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conulythat I thought I'd set up for online billing.
Turns out their website is even worse than their phone service, and not only did they want me to give the last four digits of my social security number but they wanted me to tell them the name of my favorite pet. THEY WANTED ME TO PICK FAVORITES.
How dare they.
(Plus, I needed a paper copy of a bill in hand to give some identification number other than the account number, I don't even know why. Surely the account number is sufficient!? Is there such a rash of bad actors maliciously out the get people by paying their gas bills for them?)
Anyway, I still haven't done that, and I think we'll just pay the next bill by damn check. In the mail. I'm strongly tempted to pay in the form of an envelope of singles after all this. My favorite pet? WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE!?
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Turns out their website is even worse than their phone service, and not only did they want me to give the last four digits of my social security number but they wanted me to tell them the name of my favorite pet. THEY WANTED ME TO PICK FAVORITES.
How dare they.
(Plus, I needed a paper copy of a bill in hand to give some identification number other than the account number, I don't even know why. Surely the account number is sufficient!? Is there such a rash of bad actors maliciously out the get people by paying their gas bills for them?)
Anyway, I still haven't done that, and I think we'll just pay the next bill by damn check. In the mail. I'm strongly tempted to pay in the form of an envelope of singles after all this. My favorite pet? WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE!?
California’s Lost (and Found) Punjabi-Mexican Cuisine
Affixes illustrated with koalas
Roadblock ahead: Amphibian crossing
A Mennonite Town in Muslim Central Asia Holds On Against the Odds
The art of noticing: five ways to experience a city differently
The Rebirth of Placenta Rituals
The children growing up in a ‘motherless village’
China's persecuted Uyghurs live 'freely' in Turkey
The hidden carbon cost of everyday products
Trump wants to change how poverty is calculated — to make fewer people eligible for benefits
How Does Toxic Stress Affect Low-Income and Black Children?
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Date: 2019-05-13 06:57 pm (UTC)I don't pay the bill, my sister pays it. I just make sure it gets paid. But since the downstairs bill only covers a tiny portion of our gas costs I'm in the habit of letting it slide until they send us a bill with a red warning on it. Our OTHER gas bill is enormous in winter, and the electric bill routinely hits $600 in the summer.
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Date: 2019-05-14 06:34 am (UTC)