Last week, I woke up on one of those ever-mundane weekdays and said to myself, "Self, Have you paid your Xcel bill this month?" I answered myself with a semi-confident, "No" and proceeded to go get the bill. After looking through my paperwork for a while, I realized that I didn't receive an Excel bill in the mail this month. I hadn't. So I did what any good consumer would, I called Xcel and waited on hold for a half an hour. When I was finally transfered for the 3rd time, and had explained to everyone that my bill had not come this month, they kindly told me that there was nothing they could do except re-enter my mailing address in their records. The lady also told me that the bill for seventy dollars was "due yesterday" and gladly let me pay the late bill out of my checking account, but could not count it as on time. This probably is all a result of our mailman hating us, but that is a different story. While on hold with Xcel, I decided to check my cell phone bill, just make sure I wasn't late on that one too. I was. 6 days late. Thats cool. Not to mention a few days prior I got a credit card bill asking me to pay a late fee for my first credit card payment ever, which was late because of Our Mailman not picking up mail for 3 days + The bill being due on a Sunday + The following Monday being a holiday. This just has not been my month for bills.
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