A Little Adventure

Well maybe I shouldn't call it an adventure - - it was basically complete stupidity on my part! See I came home from teaching on Tuesday, walked in my house - -- which to my SURPRISE ;) was quite chilly - - immediately I assumed I was LOW in fuel oil - - trudging all the way to my back yard in the snow...yes uphill both ways barefoot! - -- (really it's only like 4 steps from my back door!! ) I checked my gauge to find there was NO fuel oil left .... yeah for those of you who know about this kind of stuff....yeah that's REALLY bad. So I called the company right away - had to finish paying the bill too, so my grocery shopping this week isn't gonna happen!! ;-) anyways the lady is like "okay we will be there in the next 5 business days!" WHAT!!!! 5 days - I have NO heat and it's finally winter around here and COLD!!! ;-) Oh well I had high hopes that it would only be a day or so - -- I WOULD SURVIVE!!! So Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - - still no fuel men!! YIKES! by this time it's getting ridiculously cold...yes my hair spray bottle wouldn't even pump out and my mouse barely would come out -- - even that was frozen!! And that is a TRAGEDY!!! I know I think it's hilarious!!! So finally Friday morning I called just to see if I was on the route or not for that day...Thank the Lord I was - -- I could still go into another whole story about that phone call and those last few hours but this already has turned into quite the epistle! But anyways I now have heat and all is good! My biggest fear through all of this though (okay honestly pretty much gave myself an ulcer from it - - but since I live in a trailor my pipes have frozen a few times already!!! Yeah so not having heat in the house too made for quite the perfect climate for freezing pipes!!! I could just see them freezing again but this time busting and then all the water would probably flush me and my trailor right down the street!! (You have a mental picture of this I hope!) So anyways God was good to me despite my irresponsibility!!! Hey come on - out of sight out of mind right.... ;-) Oh yeah and I'm sure many of you are thinking well you should have just paid the next day fee ( I realized that ...but this happened one other time HA and the lady told me it was $150 - - not a chance I'd rather freeze!! - But this lady informed me that - that was weekend rate - if they had to come on a Saturday - weekday rates are only $50 for next day service - Now $50 is worth not freezing over!!! Oh well at least this lady was more informative for me - -I know for NEXT TIME....all I got to say is there better not be a NEXT TIME!!!