posted on January 20, 2006 08:20:53 PM new
I now know why I rent - home ownership is a lesson in frustration!
We are waiting for the final meter to be put on the house (as opposed to the constuction power meter) so that the Certificate of Occupancy can be granted. Big problem... AEB gives a 10 business day window with no apparent schedule and despite being called to do this two weeks ago, they just started the clock today. We have no power in the house not provided by extension cords and a truck coming on Tuesday now (got the last possible delay) but no idea as to whether it can unload or not.
Can someone tell me how the hell a power company can operate with no schedule? From talking to these people I now half convinced that the installers spend their day driving up and down streets looking to see if they see a home that may need a meter and then flip a coing to see if they are in the mood to install it.
This is insane. I have suppliers in Thailand that can tell me the day I will recieve an order, why can't the company one town over tell me the day they will get a truck to us?
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posted on January 20, 2006 08:22:12 PM new
Oh yeah - dbl - I saw that thread and after today - I'd say that you and Miss Mags are positively genious when it comes to business.
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posted on January 20, 2006 08:42:17 PM new
Ms.Fenix, darlin, you need to adjust your internal clock, sweetheart, and slow it down a mite. You are in the South and things move at a slower pace down here. When I first moved to Mississippi, I thought I'd go crazy with the slowness, I was finishing everyone's sentences, it was embarrassing. NEVER I say NEVER show anyone that you are in a hurry for them to do work for you...uh un .. that just means they will take their time getting around to you..LOL
The best thing to do is in your best and sweetest Southern drawl, dripping with sugar, tell them how you'd be forever grateful to them if they could find a way to squeeze lil old you into their busy schedule, and call them shug..LOL
Good luck, you sound like you're on your last nerve.
PS.. hey, was that a crack about mine and DBL's selling expertise?? I've made my 1000.00 for two weeks selling junk.. I'd say that was pretty good.. and don't pull what was my profit deal, like my DH..I'll just ignore you.. ha ha it's all profit if I've owned it.
posted on January 20, 2006 09:13:35 PM new
::squeeze lil old you into their busy schedule, and call them shug..LOL::
I can pour on the charm but according to the five people I spoke with... they don't have a schedule and they don't have anyway to contact the person who might maybe possibly have some information regarding the existance of said non existant schedule which despite it's lack of existance is dictated largely by weather (actually, not sure if it's "weather" as in if the weather is not quite nice enough to go spend the day out on someones boat, or "whether" as in whether or not said someones boat is operable to allow them to go out on it ). Just find me the right person Miss Mags, I'll call 'em sweeatheart, honey, darlin' dear and buy the five pounds of shrimp and some Old Bay if they will drag their happy ass out here.
As for patience.. I have a vague memory of what it was like to possess it... that memory gets dimmer with each passing day.
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posted on January 20, 2006 09:18:41 PM new
fenix, lol, believe it or not, that was a compliment from me,albeit a back-handed one maybe, but thats pretty good for me and maybe the best youll ever see!!
Hang in there. Repeat this mantra: "home, home, home, I will soon be home in my own sweet home." (Clicking the heels three times is optional)
posted on January 21, 2006 07:13:46 AM new
fenix,
which part of Texas are you referring to?
Thai businessmen are entreprenueurs and the mighty greenback is still mighty in their eyes,but here the utility company workers dont see it that way.
There could be a backlog of work orders,I know I have no mail box for months when i first moved into a new subdivision 3 years ago.But we do have electricity and gas when we moved in.
/ lets all stop whining !! /
posted on January 21, 2006 08:19:33 AM new
Sounds like they are the only game in town. So basically can do whatever they want and seem to be doing so.
I wouldn't piss them off, you maybe "forgotten"
Ron
"I'm so depressed. My doctor refused to write me a
prescription for Viagra. He said it would be like putting
a new flagpole on a condemned building."
