Utilities

The other day I was cooking and I heard a beeping noise coming from the cabinet where the electricity meter is. I had no idea why the electricity meter would be beeping so I called my landlord. She told me that it was beeping because the meter was running out of money.

Apparently, I have some kind of pay as you go electricity here. I have to take a key out of the meter, take the key to the shop and put money on it. I'd never heard of such a thing before. They must not trust people to pay there bills.

I also got a fright when the water bill arrived the other day and it was more than two hundred pounds. After reading it closely, I realized that the two hundred pounds was for the whole year and I could chose to pay the bill in monthly payments if I wanted.

I haven't gotten my first gas bill yet. I don't know how that's going to work out.