I was about 10 minutes from being done with my workout this morning (P90) and all of a sudden my electric goes out. No biggie. I know the routine pretty well. I finished P90 on my own. I called AEP to report it. She said "yeah, we're doing maintenance on your road replacing poles". I look out the window and sure enough, trucks are down there working.
1. Why in the fuck are you cutting electric to houses IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING WINTER?!?!?! It was 25 mother fucking degrees this morning when they cut power.
2. Why was I not notified that this was going to happen? If I would have been notified, I could have worked around it. But, noooooo.
She didn't have an answer for me. All she said was that they are not required to notify customers. I said, "Well then it's bullshit that you are not required to notify us if you are going to cut power, but I'm required to pay the fucking bill". Then I hung up. I was pissed and had to get ready for work.
But, there it was, 9:30 in the morning. I had to be at work at 10am. I just finished up my workout. I needed a shower. I have well water. The inside temp is dropping quickly. Ready. Set. Go! That was the quickest fucking shower I have ever taken, washing vitals only. Water was trickling out of the shower head as I was trying to rinse off.
Even though that was a quick shower, how did I end up being late for work? Oh, because my garage door wouldn't go up when I pushed the fucking button!!! I had to use the pull cord to release the door, raise it by hand, back the truck out, put the door back down, fight with the pull cord to lock back in place, go all the way through the house, out the front door, and walk all the way back around to my truck.
So, is there any recourse here? Is there someone at AEP that I can talk to about this shit? The lady's attitude this morning was a "That sucks" attitude. She didn't care. I should get a discount off my next bill or something to make up for what I had to go through today. Any ideas here?