As always when I have to go out of my nice warm flat over the last two weeks, its because I need electricity or gas. This time it was electicity. I had to take Monkey with me, as I don’t think he is sensible to be left alone for an hour yet, soon, after this trip, very very soon.
An hour and a half we were in the queue to get electicity, I am not sure how many of you have spent an hour and a half in a queue with a 9 year old, but when there is not something fun about to happen at the end of that queue, it starts to become hell fairly quickly.
We did it, but I am not taking him again, even if it means we might have to spend time sitting in the darkness till my partner gets home with electricty.
Its good to be crazy Sometimes 
Wait? What? You have to go line up to buy electricity and then bring it home? How do you carry the electricity? In a bag? Or a big battery? So many questions. Now my creative mind is churning with ideas.
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I go to the shops and get an electric pokemon and charge that in a plug :-p
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I was literally thinking the same thing! Bring an Amazon box to carry the electricity home 😂
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Its a key, you put money into to make the meter work, basically, so we pay upfront for the electicity we use.
It drives me nuts, but it was the way it was designed when the building was built
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You have basically a parking meter for electricity?
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Yep, basically but where you put the money in for the parking meter is a 20 minute walk and an hour and a half queuing
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Is the meter only open certain hours, or is it one of those things youo can sneak down at like midnigiht and put the money in?
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Its only opem 9-5, so if you dont get it in time, you dont get your electric
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That seems like an odd way of doing it. If you pre pay and use more, you’re kinda just in the dark? What if you decide to do it on a day/time that’s slower? Can you go any day or does it have to be a certain day?
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Its open Monday through Saturday apart from bank holidays, so you have to make sure you plan ahead, although most electric companies have a special thing in place, where they won’t cut you off it is a sunday or a bank holiday and normally they have a thing where after say 8pm, they won’t cut you off either but come 8am all your electric goes off. Its a stupid system and it costs you more because you can’t easily swap companies to get the better deals.
It drives me nuts and the next time I move, one of my main things is not going to be having one of these damn things
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So sorry to hear about the queue! What a pain in the hindquarters!
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It really was, hopefully though, its a one off, but I doubt it, at the moment
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Sounds like that was fun lol
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Bloody post office, Fucking British Gas, changing who they use for pre payment and sodding landlord for dodgy electrics that means I cant get a smart meter without the whole block of flats agreeing
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It went well then…
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I really hate doing it every week,
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I can only imagine…
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the whole thing is a shit show
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Many things are and they call it a working system
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I dont blame you! Queues are a nightmare, even worse with a kid in toe! Xx
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I hate it and there is never a good time
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