Electric Bills and Bank Account Infiltration Fun!
By some weird stroke of fate, my roommates and I haven't been paying our electric bills. We don't know why, exactly, but when I tried to sign up for Con Ed, they said someone else was paying for it. We had a suspicion it might be our landlord, but we had a nervous concern that our downstairs neighbor was inadvertently keeping our lights on. But whatevs, we said, free electricity!!!
But today, a turn of events has complicated and confused us all.
My bank got charged by Con Ed. Gee, I thought, I don't even have an account with Con Ed, so I called them right up. What they told me was I indeed do not have an account, and in fact, am no where in the system. After looking up my address, they saw someone named Alison has been paying for our apartment. I think our downstairs neighbor is Alison (but I can't remember...I'm not very neighborly). I said to Con Ed, Okay, but regardless of who normally pays it, how the hell did it get charged to my account if I didn't give anyone my bank information? She said she didn't know. And she couldn't help me anymore. Because she was an idiot. She suggested I file a police report.
So what do I do? It's all so confusing. Do I:
a.) just let it go, ignore the fact that someone has my bank info, see if I get charged next month, and be happy that I slipped through the ranks for so long (and anyway, what I got charged probably isn't even our full electric bill because we tend to leave our lights on all the time and stuff, and it seemed sort of low).
b.) suck it up, go down to my neighbor, ask her if she's paying for our electric, ask her what the deal is and if she somehow (but how can it be?) knows my bank account info.
c.) file a police report, even though that doesn't really make sense.
d.) call Con Ed again and use angry words and make them retract what they billed me (even though the lady said they can't because I don't have an account, but I have a 100% feeling that they indeed can.)
e.) Stop using electricity all together.
I know, I know, you're going to say I should do B (or maybe E, if you think you're funny). But I don't wanna! What if she makes us pay all the electricty bills we never paid? I highly doubt I can afford that, as I've been enjoying what would be electricity money on going out to eat and sneakers with wheels in them.
If you have over 15 charisma you can probably convince her that she owes you money
D first. Ask to speak to a manager. Say you have photocopies of them billing you, etc.
however, free utilities are never free unless landlord says so. i know so many people who don't get charged for a while and then *BAMF* nightcrawler teleports in and fucks them with his tail.