To not have let the meter reader in to read the gas meter.

[Goawaybob]

It was about 2.30 and DP is off work poorly (not so poorly that we coudlnt have a lovely walk on the beach earlier ). He is self employed and we hardly ever get any time alone. So we were enjoying a nice cuppa before the school run.

Bang bang at the door (i thought it miht come down) and the meter man was there. I just coudlnt face pulling all the crap out of the cupboard for him to read the meter, plus its a pre-pay digital meter, which one time when we had a problem with it, british gas were able to tell us exactly what was on it, remotely, so they must have remote access to the details.

I told the man, very politely that it wasn't convenient. He just stood there sort of incredulous and didnt say anything, i said, besides its a pre-pay meter, i don't need you to read it, thanks. He said, Yes you do actually, so i said no it is not convenient sorry but you are welcome to come back at a more convenient time. He just looked really pissed off and said, Well im afraid its now or never, i'll just put you down as a refused entry shall i? I said, yeah, if you want, and shut the door.

But now im miffed, i did not refuse entry, i told him it was inconvenient because it was (cupboard chocca block and would have been a pita to get to meter and it was nearly time to pick up DD) - grrrrrrr

ZOMBIE THREAD ALERT

And where is the nice helpful Zombie picture when yo need it?

I open the front door, Open the meter cupboard, he looks in and 30 seconds later he is gone (although the dog growling in the next room is probably an incentive)

As someone pointed out if you can access it to put credit in then he should have been able to read it easily too.

Personally I think not helping him do his job quickly was unhelpful so YABU

I don't know how they manage to read most though as people are out at work - we would pay WAY more for an appointment service so not keen to go that route.

I guess you will be insisting they get right out if it goes wrong despite the fact that you haven't allowed them to check all is OK!

Why did someone re-start this