To those who say pennies are worth nothing.

The rest of the story confuses me. Why does this woman have an electricity bill of sixteen hundred fucking dollars? That could cover my entire utilities bill for months and months. I feel like I'm either missing something obvious, or things are WAY cheaper than they should be here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Mr. Danielsard

Seems that is mostly for lack of payments, as the lady says that she will be on top of her bills after that to prevent it from happenning again

I guess, but my calculations show that this would be about a year's worth of utility bills for me, if I take care to watch what I use. It's incredible that she let it get that bad. I'm not saying I blame her, she obviously had reasons, and possibly went through some hardship, but I would faint dead away if I got that kind of a bill.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Josiah

Yeah, it does seem a bit of a stretch for the power company to do that over a penny. But I can see too how it could turn out if they were even more lenient that way. Before you know it, people would be saying the same thing only it would be "It was just a dollar", and then that would get stretched even further to "It was just $10", "It was only $50", and so on. Yeah, I'm exaggerating, but you get my drift. They have to draw the line somewhere if they don't want their clients raping them day in and day out.

It's not as though they couldn't have just put it on her next bill. I'm not saying she shouldn't have to pay it. After all, if she owes a penny, she owes a penny.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.