Go Long, Little Brother...Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Herd
All Right, Sis! Hit me...
Whenever I read or hear a story like this following one, I remember my oath to secrecy. Yes, the gas company did not catch our faulty gas meter for 15 years that we lived at 3220 Nottingham in WUP.
Our meter that was situated at the far end of our backyard, that often smelt of natural gas, had frozen. The cubic foot "odometer" moving only slightly, read almost the same number for all those years. Not until the last year we lived there did it come to be noticed.
That would be about 1969, when things started changing, as electronics became the new human tangent of conscience. But a sudden "fix" of the "CF odometer" has been attributed to a football pass thrown from the back door, deflected off my
brother's shoulder that squarely hit the gas meter.
I feel a little guilty, but, after 42 years, I can no longer hold onto this classified information. Aged five to fifteen, I owned our back yard, and gave true meaning to "BackYardiGans."
PHOTO's: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 In the News: Dude Threatens To Kill His Roommate Over Fantasy Football [HERE]
Utility Sent Idaho Couple Wrong Bill For 3 Years
Utility Apologizes To Idaho Couple After Sending Them Someone Else's Gas Bill For Over 3 Years | HAYDEN, Idaho, Mar. 6, 2009 | [HERE]
(AP) A utility has reimbursed a northern Idaho couple nearly $2,000 after sending them someone else's gas bill for more than three years. Avista Corp. spokeswoman Debbie Simock said the company has also offered an apology to Don and Penny Fisher. "It was ridiculous," Don Fisher told the Coeur d'Alene Press. "Even in the hot months it was riding up and we were paying for it."
The Fishers said they built fires
and bundled up but continued to get big gas bills for three years and three months. They said their inquiries to Avista didn't get results."Argue, argue, argue," the couple said.
They said they reported a fake gas leak in January to get a visit from a company representative, who discovered that meter readings in the subdivision had been crossed.
The Fishers said they had to skimp on three Christmases due to their nearly $500 in
winter gas and electric bills."It was ridiculous," Don Fisher said. "We could not be using that much gas."(read more at SOURCE)
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In the News: By Dave Kinchen | Monday, January 26, 2009 | Elderly man freezes to death in home [HERE]
What about your Electric Meter?
A 93-year-old Bay City man is found frozen to death inside his home. There is outrage along Chilson Street. Marvin Schur was found dead of hypothermia on January 17th inside
his house.“We are supposed to live in the greatest country in the world and yet we shut someone’s gas off and let them freeze to death!” said Jerome Anderson, a neighbor.
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"But a sudden "fix" of the "CF odometer" has been attributed to a football pass thrown from the back door, deflected off my brother's shoulder that squarely hit the gas meter."
Karma my friend.
Oh, hidden Master, thus the hidden gas meter, crouching dromedary had last word:
By the practice of the threefold inner discipline on the form and the substantiated humped body, one can comprehend directly the energy that makes it possible to “grasp” it with the eyes and so forth (for the flow of light waves is the form): and when this energy-function is suspended, the dynamics of perception is made inoperative, the link between the perceiving eye and light is severed as it were and invisibility occurs... as it takes leather balls to play football... no?
Thus, they who have realized this have fulfilled their mission in life. And the beginning less succession of changes of the qualities or characteristics, that was falsely assumed to be related to the self which itself was the first notion - comes to an end. (Or, the succession of changes of qualities which have reached the fulfillment of their purpose comes to an end.)
So saith the Camel, as he puffed his Kool.
it takes leather balls...
Juan Wayne: have you any wool?
What for, ask you?
To fill our leather balls, sir, two balls full.
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