Thursday, May 30, 2013

My Relative, the Zombie

A relative of mine is engaged in selling a house and buying a condo, so called the electric utility to arrange the transfer of billing, and had major problems getting it done..  The third person my relative dealt with finally figured out the problem: relative was dead.

Apparently when the spouse died some years back, the person who handled the update of records then added my relative's name to the account, but then recorded the relative as dead, rather than the spouse.

1 comment:

Walter Jeffries said...

Well that must be a bummer to hear you're dead. This sort of thing crops up in the news time to time. With all the paper work a typo here and there, a miss-pressed button and bingo, another one bites the dust. I have heard it can be rather difficult to convince the powers that be that one is still alive.