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Originally Posted by special-K
Not today, but Thursday I paid my electric bill. Yes I sure did. I walk around to my driveway and there's a Potomac Edison pickup in my driveway and I see a guy. He was dropping off a nasty note prior to cut-off. Middle of the month is when it's due. I felt surprised but more concerned about hurrying up to pay. I guess I'm riding a month behind, so cut-off to cut-off?
I call to pay and am only asked the amount I always pay (avg pmnts), nothing about past due amount. I call back to check balance, which didn't register my payment yet, and was told balance was amount I just paid and it is due 6/24. Now I'm really scratching my head. The guy had stuck the notice in my door, then grabbed it and handed it to me. I didn't see an acct# on it. I go look it over again and that's when I saw it was for my neighbors behind me!
That's great for me, I sure got paid up quick. But pretty awkward now. I decided to be a chicken about it. I waited till Dad and Meemah left for work yesterday, snuck up on the porch, and stuck the notice in the door. I know nut'ing!
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When I did disconnects I always had the "milk run' customers. The people that I had to visit every month like clockwork. It was routine. They wouldn't pay until they saw my smiling face.
There was one guy. (nice guy) He repaired cars in his driveway. He was always home and always paid me. That's just how he paid his bill.
So I show up as usual. Same old same old. He pays the bill and I get in my truck and leave.
I'm driving away and I see him chasing me yelling.
So I stop. He runs up all out of breath.
It turns out the disconnect was for his next door neighbor that I had never had a collection on before. Neither of us had noticed. We were just going through the motions.
We got a laugh out of it. He was lucky to catch me because he paid the bill in cash and it wasn't even his bill.
Turns out his neighbor had died. That's why the bill wasn't paid and I had never been to that house before. We both just assumed it was him.
I hated that job. But this guy was always cool. Never a complaint, always friendly and trust me I didn't get too much of that. I had a few customers like this guy. I guess their philosophy was when the guy shows up it's time to pay the bill. That's just how they did it.
I've got a million stories like that. It was a crazy job.