The $9 Water Bill

A friend of mine is a waitress at a restaurant. Just yesterday, she met a man who looked like he was in his 50’s or so who was from Philadelphia. He struck up a conversation with her and she learned that he has a house down here in good old Robeson County. So far so good, a lot of people have second homes here in this county. Why? I don’t know but hey it’s their choice.

Well, as the conversation went on this gentleman told her that he routinely makes trips down to Robeson County, once a month to be exact. The reason he said he makes this trip so often was to make a $9 water bill every month! OK, time for an evaluation.

First of all, if you know that every month you’re going to have a water bill in another state, why not mail it, call and use your credit card or something!? Seems to me that would be the logical thing to do. This guy drove about 7-8 hours once a month to pay a $9 water bill!! Call me crazy but I would have either had the water turned off, or just let it go past due and let them turn it off like that. That way, when I would have come back to the house, I would just pay the connect fee, which is probably cheaper than gas back and forth a month, and called it a day!

But in the guy’s defense, he did ask the people at the water place if he could pre-pay this last trip and what a shock, THEY SAID YES!!! How smart do you think he felt about that!?

So this goes out to they guy that drove almost 500 miles one way a month to pay a water bill that was only $9. You my friend do not know the power of a question. All you had to do was ASK! So Mr. I’ll Drive 7 Hours Once A Month To Pay A $9 Water Bill, you are my close encounter with stupidity!