Joe the dumbass salesman fails, we get a big win with the power folks

We got the shock of our life when our first power bill came Monday- For 13 days, it was $169.00! We called the power folks, who at first insisted we were wrong, and that the average bill for our house was $725.00 for the last two months. Long story short, they came out and re-read the meter at the house, rather than what it said at the office, and decided that we were overcharged for 1000 kw hours. Seems the meter does need recalibration, as we had originally thought. Anyway, big victory for us. Adjusted bill to follow, they say. We hope for about $50.

Against our hindsight, we agreed at one of our stops at Home Depot to be contacted at home by a company that offered to check our water( sell us a $10,000 water softening/purification/air filtration system. We sat through an hour and a half of the lousiest presentation I have ever seen, telling us what we already knew, we have hard water, lots of sediment, and a few other things, this after we had a statement from our water folks saying we had the best water in the nation, just about.... Tina and the boys did mention a high sulfur taste... well, the guy gets to the end of his canned presentation and we say not no, but hell no, and he gets all flustered, tries to continue, and I basically ordered him and his little test kit out of the house. Note to self, next visit to Wal-Mart, get one of those Brita filters we've seen on Biggest Loser. Gets the job done for maybe under a 100, not 10,000.