Friday, March 27, 2009

Sticker Shock!

Well, after living here for almost 3 months, I realized that I needed to figure out how to pay for the garbage. I had already received the bill for electricity, and somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I remembered that electricity came on the same bill as the water, but I couldn't recall paying for garbage service. So, I spent the last hour searching through all of our papers for some sort of notice. When that failed to turn anything up, I resorted to the internet, and spent another 20 minutes searching. And then...I found this quaint little word called "sanitation" mentioned on the city's website. Aha! I then added sanitation to my google search, and came up with......nothing. Hmm... I couldn't figure out who provided garbage service.

Well, I grabbed my electric bill and looked it over. Don't know why. I was just really frustrated, so out came the lovely little bill. It said: Electric - $20.44, Water - $14.40, Sewer - $16.54, Storm Drainage - $5.00, Sanitation!!!!! Eureka! Sanitation - $16.54. I just love Texas.

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