So I come back home from work and as expected I find the electricity bill waiting for me at the door step. It says 7 dollars for this month, and I think to myself "Hmmm.. interesting given the fact that I paid 1.5 dollars the month before".
As I make a mental note that I should pass by the post-office and pay the bill later in the day, I notice a mobile number scribbled on the bill with a note saying "Please call this number to check your meter inside the house or power will be cut". I immediately call the number on the bill but it turns out to be wrong (!).
I check the bill again and find the emergency number typed on it. I try that and a guy (who's name I find out later is Khalid) picks up and I explain my situation to him, stressing on the fact that I'm always out of the house during the day so the meter guy should schedule a time when I am at the house, mainly Thursday morning, to pass by and read the meter. So, Khalid asks me to read out the meter number and the current reading off the bill. Then he instructs me to go downstairs to my meter and read the number on it.
Shockingly, we both realize that the bill has a reading that exceeds the actual meter reading by 1000 kilowatts! Which basically means that the Yemeni power company owes me money (!) Khalid chuckles at this and asks for my phone number to get back to me on this matter.
I will try to call Khalid again this morning and get an update. More to come.
Sana'a
8.4.2010
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