Hypno's "no more boom or bust" diary

ZTD

hypno06 wrote: »

Apparently the IP address being used was in Maidstone, so def not me.....

You can't track down IP addresses like that. It will be registered to your ISP who may very well actually be in Maidstone.

My IP appears in Shropshire.

It's just Egg blowing smoke from where the sun don't shine...

beanielou

hiphouse~That just about sums up the problem of being disabled.
Hope you can get it sorted.

hypno06

ZTD wrote: »

It's just Egg blowing smoke from where the sun don't shine...

Now why doesn't that surprise me.

[Deleted User]

"It's just Egg blowing smoke from where the sun don't shine..."

I guess after Hypno reads ZTD's response there may just be a chance she could be temporarily labelled as having Tourette's :eek:

It's the lack of honesty that grates when dealing with this big organisations... why can't they just say "I don't know, but I'll find out... and then ACTUALLY find out"?

It's not the lack of hearing that disabled me today, it was the teller's attitude :mad:

Think I need to stomp up another BIG hill

ZTD

Deleted_User wrote: »

It's not the lack of hearing that disabled me today, it was the teller's attitude :mad:

Unfortunately, you came across that artefact of mathematics that states: "No matter how low you think average intelligence is, half the population are even dumber than that..."

mooomin

macgirl wrote: »

I often wonder the very same Taxi....I would be sacked if I were that bad at my job. Don't get me started on Scottishpower...

I'm with them too and one day (back in the good old days when I was paying £50 per month to them, but long before my LBM when an increase in a monthly bill was the END OF THE WORLD.....) I received a letter......

Dear Miss Fresian

As we were recently unable to access your meter we have had to estimate your bill and therefore your monthly payment will increase to £95.

Love n hugs

Scottish Bloody Power

*****

So, I decided to phone their call centre to see what could be done about this outrage.

Flying_Fresian (Heroine of this story): Um...hello. You've sent me a letter saying you're going to double my monthly payment because you tried to read my meter and failed. Can you explain this to me?

Scottish Power (Insert pantomine Boo Hiss noises here): Yes madam, we have to estimate it because we can't read the meter.

FF: Ok, I understand that, but what part of the recent activity made you think we had doubled our usage of power? Also, we didn't know you needed to read the meter, we didn't have a card through the door.

SP: Oh, we always put a card through the door madad.

FF: But you didn't. *sigh* Ok, can we arrange a day for your meterman to come and look at the readings and in the meantime can you please reduce my bill to the previous amount until we can sort this out?

SP: I'm sorry madam, we can't reduce the bill without a meter reading.

FF: But you increased it without a meter reading!!! *mutes phone* @!$%@@**

SP: Our system doesn't allow us to reduce the monthly payment without a reading.

FF: *sigh*

They did eventually agree to reduce the payment, but by the time they did this my blood pressure (and work's phonebill) was a lot higher. W*nker$.

I really must move energy supplier.....

InaPickle

flying_fresian wrote: »

Flying_Fresian (Heroine of this story): Um...hello. You've sent me a letter saying you're going to double my monthly payment because you tried to read my meter and failed. Can you explain this to me?

Scottish Power (Insert pantomine Boo Hiss noises here): Yes madam, we have to estimate it because we can't read the meter.

:rotfl:You tell a funny story, Fresian: far funnier than being on the receving end of such behaviour. You're very funny! :T

macgirl

shaun40400 wrote: »

me to macgirl


ive fed the kids :T:T
half done tonight's diner
spent way to long on
facebook
skype
mse
:o:o

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I have:

Played Ski jumping with kids on new Wii
Ironed 2 things
Ate a few Quality Street
Consoled crying child as big sister made her alias "fat" on Wii :rolleyes:
Ironed 2 duvet covers - yak
Read, chatted and general time wasted on MSE
Ironed 2 more things
Ate more Quality Street
Won £10 for DH on BB :j
Made risotto for dinner with store cupboard gubbins but ended up going to shop for stock cubes
Then realised had only a teaspoon of risotto rice so back over to shop :rolleyes:

Roll on bedtime

macgirl

ZTD wrote: »

Unfortunately, you came across that artefact of mathematics that states: "No matter how low you think average intelligence is, half the population are even dumber than that..."

Yep, ain't that the truth.
My OH has a theory about this which I wouldn't like to disclose on a public forum for fear of unintentionally offending people. But I hear you.

flying_fresian wrote: »

I'm with them too and one day (back in the good old days when I was paying £50 per month to them, but long before my LBM when an increase in a monthly bill was the END OF THE WORLD.....) I received a letter......

Dear Miss Fresian

As we were recently unable to access your meter we have had to estimate your bill and therefore your monthly payment will increase to £95.

Love n hugs

Scottish Bloody Power

*****

Oh, I received a better one than that FF.

Dear Mrs Mac
Good news! We are reducing your monthly bill! You don't have to do anything - your monthly payment will be adjusted automatically!!!

Lots of Love from
Scottishpower (trickter ricksters)

*****

So what happened?! Yes, they very kindly reduced my bill from £70 per month to £95. :rotfl:

beanielou

OMG Mac you just could not make it up.
Really to be Scottish now.