TBW Daily Diary

Today The Bare Wall was posted by the city for not paying its water bill. Service was to be terminated in the next day or so. But earlier in the week we got a termination letter giving us until August 17 to cough up the cash. Which to believe? Yes, we are running a delinquent account; income hasn't been stellar lately, but . . . the check to the city was mailed prior to all this ado. Of the five checks mailed at that time, four had already cleared our account; the city's hadn't. This also happened to me several years ago. At that time I asked "just how far behind is the city in crediting users' accounts?" About three weeks, I was told. One would think they would clear all checks before mailing out notices and sending someone on a fool's errand. Hopefully no one at city hall reads this blog or we could be thirsty and smelling ripe in a few days! . . . (Happy to report the termination was canceled once my check was located.)