[nagymom]

Ah yes, utilities in Colorado Springs, how well I remember. Such a big place to have such screwed up service. We had a dog when we lived there, a spaniel. She was terrific guard dog but was an inside dog when we weren't home. We never left her outside because we didn't want her to bark. Apparently the water meter reader heard her barking in doors once so decided from then on out that he/she wasn't going to go into our fenced back yard and read the meter. I let it go once but when I started coming home from work to find a note on my mailbox that WE had to read the meter and mail it in, I went ballistic. I called and told them that they didn't pay me to read it but they did have a person they paid and that they needed to get them out there to DO their job! Our dog was family and we never left her outside unless we were home. The supervisor came out that day and read the meter and we never came home to another note telling us to read it.

Jayne