We have lived here for the last 10 years. We always pay our water bill. Occasionally, we’ll forget and receive a final notice for our water bill which we will promptly pay.

Tonight at 8 pm, a city police officer banged on our door with a blinding flashlight in hand. Made me verify my identification and then handed me my water bill (the due date being a week from now)

What the hell!

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 days ago

    It’s like that pretty much in every US city.

    I grew up in a rural area where we don’t have water bills because our homes have individual wells and septic tanks

    Water bills were a weird thing to adjust to when I first moved to the city