Electricity

[aichambaye at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Dai Evans" <dwe199 at s...> wrote:
> you are a lucky guy. My house has a electricity meter which I have 
to 
> charge with an electronic key, onto which I have to buy electricity 
> from the newsagents (nearest newsagent with the service is, of 
> course, about a mile and a half away). This has made my flatmates 
> (bar 1) and me very careful about power consumption. We do not ever 
> leave lights on in empty rooms and always switch off the 
> TV/video/amp/dvd/cable reciever stack at the wall when not in use. 
My 
> computer I always turn off if I'm not using it, along with my 
stereo, 
> which means it constantly flashes 12:00 when it's on, just like the 
> video.
> 
> We have one descenting housemate who seems unable to understand the 
> concept. We beat him regularly (amusing side note, one flatmate 
shot 
> the descenting one in the testicles with a BB gun yesterday. How we 
> laughed. How he cried.)
> 
> We use about £10 per week between 3 or 4 (one housemate is rarely 
> here, always living at her boyfriends house) of us.
> 
> 

First Dai, you are really warped. In the BB gun shot to the testicles 
sense. I'm laughing like crazy over here.

Second, this electricity key thing is both really odd and a really 
good idea which keeps the usage in line. If you had to pay as you 
went, I think we'd use less. 

Does anyone else have this or is this uniquely a British Univerisy 
town oddity?

Heather M.