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Mar. 3rd, 2006 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miko2So, the final chapter in my "keys I get when moving in" happened this week. For those that don't remember, I was given a key when I moved in which I was told was for the storage locker. Actually there might have been a point in there where they withheld the key in order to make an extra copy, I think, but eventually I was given this key. It didn't work. So then I was told that they were going to have to replace the lock, and they hadn't done it yet, and it was still scheduled to be done, and what? Your storage locker key didn't work? We had no idea! Etc.
So a week or two goes by when I haven't asked them, and on Wednesday I take in my new rent check, and I ask them about the storage locker key. And you know what they tell me?
"Your house key should work for that."
Gee. That might have been nice to know a month and a half ago....
So I tried it, and it does indeed work. I now have something stored there -- just my empty rubbermaid totes, but at least they're out of the livingroom. There really isn't enough room to put my bike in there too, even if I could hang it from the ceiling, unless it was the only thing in there (and even then, I'm not certain it would fit -- the storage area is very shallow). So for now my bike is in the living room still, although I might put it in the dining area, or the second bathroom... or maybe under my bed, who knows.
I got a letter from Comcast today in the mail. It looked very official, and I was thinking that the might be trying to threaten me to pay up or something. You see, when I had all of those problems with them uninstalling and reinstalling my service at the old place, and then unistalling and not being able to install for a week at the new place, I got a lot of contradictory statements. They sent me several e-mails saying my new statement was ready for viewing, but their online statements generally don't reflect any recent activity, such as the payment I made the week before I moved, so I couldn't trust that to tell me what my account was currently. I also received at least three statements in the mail in the span of a week or so, each one completely different from the others. The last one reflected a $45.00 credit on my account, and I assumed that this one was correct, because I knew they would credit you for service that was disrupted, and mine had been disrupted twice (they'd given me a credit for the first disruption already).
And then the new bill came and it showed a $99.00 past due amount for the installation fee. This annoyed me a great deal, but after all, what are you going to do? I was planning to pay it, but hadn't yet, which is why the letter I got today made me think they might be upset at me for having a past due account. Never mind that they've really been very patient with me in the past, I've gone two months without paying on more than one occasion, just by being lazy and forgetting to pay.
So I open it up, and what do you think it was? A refund check for the $45.00 credit that had been on my account last month!
What I don't get is how I can get a refund check for having a credit on my account last month, and yet have an amount twice that size carry over to this month that is now listed as past due. But they sent me a check so I'm not going to quibble about it.
The door on the fence around the garbage container is fixed. Apparently I escaped unnoticed in broad daylight. I guess this is how people steal cars and whatever in the middle of the day and don't get caught... most of the time, nobody is really paying attention.
So a week or two goes by when I haven't asked them, and on Wednesday I take in my new rent check, and I ask them about the storage locker key. And you know what they tell me?
"Your house key should work for that."
Gee. That might have been nice to know a month and a half ago....
So I tried it, and it does indeed work. I now have something stored there -- just my empty rubbermaid totes, but at least they're out of the livingroom. There really isn't enough room to put my bike in there too, even if I could hang it from the ceiling, unless it was the only thing in there (and even then, I'm not certain it would fit -- the storage area is very shallow). So for now my bike is in the living room still, although I might put it in the dining area, or the second bathroom... or maybe under my bed, who knows.
I got a letter from Comcast today in the mail. It looked very official, and I was thinking that the might be trying to threaten me to pay up or something. You see, when I had all of those problems with them uninstalling and reinstalling my service at the old place, and then unistalling and not being able to install for a week at the new place, I got a lot of contradictory statements. They sent me several e-mails saying my new statement was ready for viewing, but their online statements generally don't reflect any recent activity, such as the payment I made the week before I moved, so I couldn't trust that to tell me what my account was currently. I also received at least three statements in the mail in the span of a week or so, each one completely different from the others. The last one reflected a $45.00 credit on my account, and I assumed that this one was correct, because I knew they would credit you for service that was disrupted, and mine had been disrupted twice (they'd given me a credit for the first disruption already).
And then the new bill came and it showed a $99.00 past due amount for the installation fee. This annoyed me a great deal, but after all, what are you going to do? I was planning to pay it, but hadn't yet, which is why the letter I got today made me think they might be upset at me for having a past due account. Never mind that they've really been very patient with me in the past, I've gone two months without paying on more than one occasion, just by being lazy and forgetting to pay.
So I open it up, and what do you think it was? A refund check for the $45.00 credit that had been on my account last month!
What I don't get is how I can get a refund check for having a credit on my account last month, and yet have an amount twice that size carry over to this month that is now listed as past due. But they sent me a check so I'm not going to quibble about it.
The door on the fence around the garbage container is fixed. Apparently I escaped unnoticed in broad daylight. I guess this is how people steal cars and whatever in the middle of the day and don't get caught... most of the time, nobody is really paying attention.
