Ever since we had a smart meter put in we now get an email every month asking us to read the meter. I thought the point of smart meters was that you don't have to do that but that's beside the point.
Anyway obviously I have always forgotten the password to enter the readings online so I have to fanny around resetting that.
Then have to battle past the vacuum and other nonsense spiders in the under stairs cupboard to get to meter. When I'm then faced with two tiny keypads which of course I can't remember how to use.
Get back out of cupboard to Google how to read smart meters. Of course! How could I have forgotten that you press the number 6 three times until a seven digit code appears and then wait three seconds for the meter reading to appear, before then pressing the 6 again an unspecified number of times until another random collection of digits appears??! That is so intuitive.
Having got the hang of that, the gas meter dispenses with the number 6 altogether and decides 9 is a better random number to forget every month.
I read electricity meter and write it down. Then try to read gas meter which for reasons unbeknownst to us has been installed with the display screen facing away from the door.
Finally after juggling with a series of torches and mirrors read the gas meter.
I have now written down the instructions and sellotaped them to the meters in the hope that next month I will be congratulating myself on my forward thinking and the paper won't have been eaten by spiders.