Got a panicked call from my mom today. The phone company called her, looking for me. Seems that when we moved in December, Bell never bothered to disconnect the phone/internet/satellite at 60+40+80+tax+LD a month. Someone else has been living there since, not paying a cent, and the no disconnect snafu went on till now, when the someone else is moving, and the new someone else was normal and wanted to get a phone hooked up before moving in, and Bell "couldn't" cause it was still hooked up. The bill was standing at $2600.
I called, and after an hour and a half on the phone while the woman settled the phone thing and sat on hold with the satellite and internet companies with me to talk to them for me, it's settled, I won, I don't owe. I dunno wtf and didn't ask. The woman was nice enough, but it was not a good way to wake up.
So the kids are hot and bored after all that. So I figure hey, it's time, I should go buy a hose. Went down to the Co-Op and bought a long-ass hose, a tap connector (cause there is no outside tap atm), and a sprinkler for the lawn and the kiddies.
It won't fit any of the taps on the main floor, or the upstairs sink, or the bathtub. After all that screwing and unscrewing, finally I clue in and put it in the laundry room in the basement, and run it out the basement window. Get the sprinkler all positioned in the yard, turn on the tap - the basement tap leaks. Not enough pressure to run the sprinkler properly.
After twenty minutes of fiddling with it and a chain of 3 of us yelling "a little more!" "turn it down a bit!", it works!!! Good to go!!!
And then Avery promptly steps on the sprinkler and breaks it.
I wanna go to bed.
I called, and after an hour and a half on the phone while the woman settled the phone thing and sat on hold with the satellite and internet companies with me to talk to them for me, it's settled, I won, I don't owe. I dunno wtf and didn't ask. The woman was nice enough, but it was not a good way to wake up.
So the kids are hot and bored after all that. So I figure hey, it's time, I should go buy a hose. Went down to the Co-Op and bought a long-ass hose, a tap connector (cause there is no outside tap atm), and a sprinkler for the lawn and the kiddies.
It won't fit any of the taps on the main floor, or the upstairs sink, or the bathtub. After all that screwing and unscrewing, finally I clue in and put it in the laundry room in the basement, and run it out the basement window. Get the sprinkler all positioned in the yard, turn on the tap - the basement tap leaks. Not enough pressure to run the sprinkler properly.
After twenty minutes of fiddling with it and a chain of 3 of us yelling "a little more!" "turn it down a bit!", it works!!! Good to go!!!
And then Avery promptly steps on the sprinkler and breaks it.
I wanna go to bed.
