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By fedUPwithPEOPLE - 31/07/2014 07:35 - United States - Enterprise

Today, the city shut off our water, because they said we didn't pay the bill. Turns out, it was sitting on their desk the whole time. I guess sending someone out to turn off our water was easier than checking to see if we'd actually paid the bill. FML

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ThepurpleCow 19

Thursday 31 July 2014 17:23

Lazy government!

tournamentdecide 33

Thursday 31 July 2014 17:23

Anything but do their job right, right? That's how billing people work.

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Z054J 1

Saturday 9 August 2014 6:17

You can figure out how to gripe about it online, but you can't figure out how to pay a bill without handing somebody a piece of paper?

Soloras_fml 6

Sunday 7 September 2014 12:09

Unfortunately this kind of garbage is the norm for city/government jobs these days. Sorry, OP. :(

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