Somehow the household responsibilities have been split so that I am the one who takes care of the bills. I’ve done a piss-poor job of it at times, but lately I have been doing a pretty good job in spite of being too busy to keep an actual written tab of what’s going into and what’s coming out of our accounts. I was relying on my memory, which probably wasn’t the wisest thing to do considering how preoccupied I am with other things.
Right before Halloween I thought I might be missing something. I went through everything in my mental filing cabinet and came up empty. Everything that needed to be paid had been paid. Or so I thought. Today I received a lovely letter from the township informing me our water will be turned off if we don’t pay our bill within 72 hours of the notice. Oh right…the water. Whoops.
At first I felt a twinge of shame that I had let it get this far. What am I, nineteen? Then I felt anger at the township for wasting a whole 24 hours of their allotted 72-hour grace period to mail me the dang notice. Then came the indignation when I realized the 72 hours ended on my birthday. They want to shut the water off on my birthday.
Since the township offices do not open until Monday, I wound up paying the bill online with a credit card. I’m hoping that does the trick because I do not want to wake up on my birthday and not be able to take a shower. Nor do I want to call my parents up on my birthday and ask to use their facilities because our water got turned off. Hopefully the township will recognize the payment has been made or else this birthday will go down in the books as one of the best ever.
Have I also mentioned that I have to renew my driver’s license? I have to go in to the Secretary of State’s office and take the test this year and the only day the local branches are open late is Wednesday, the day I have class Luckily there is one branch on the other end of town that has Saturday hours, so that’s where I’ll be tomorrow morning, trying not to look like the schmuck who waited until the last very last minute to renew her plates and license. Which I totally am.
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