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Powerless
Thanks to Scottish Power pissing around, we ran out of electricity on Friday. Completely. I know that happens every time there's a power cut, but when you can't say for certain if the power will come back on in the next few days it becomes a bit more unnerving.
There's always a risk with prepayment meters: that you'll forget to put any money on the damn thing and everything falls over without warning. But I don't even have the opportunity to forget to recharge mine, as due to some conflict between the information of the suppliers, they still haven't got a new charging 'key' to me. As the guy who reset the meter had to take the old one we were left keyless, expecting Scottish Power to send a new one. Down to a few pounds worth of juice in the tank, I phoned them up, and they said they'd push through the problem. They could also arrange for a guy to come around to put some more credit on to tide us over. Unfortunately the guy can only be summoned if the credit is already below 50p (which, as anyone who has had a prepayment meter will attest, might last half a day, if you go easy on cups of tea) and if you can guarantee that you can be in all day. Not useful if you, y'know, work. Needles to say these conditions make it quite difficult to get any credit put on your meter this may; Unless you run out of credit on Saurday, you're pretty fucked, and if you happen to be out on Saturday you're similarly shafted. The latter eventuality could well be realised if they don't get it sorted pretty bloody soon, as we've got a wedding to go to on this Saturday.
This could get complicated.
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