The 'Mail' Man

I think I've posted before about how we get our phone bills. We don't have mail so, normally when you pay a bill, you just guess at when it's due or wait until they turn off whatever service it is that you subscribe to. The phone company (we only have one) is a step up from everyone else. They have this one guy who hand delivers everyones bills to their doorstep. It's really a non-essential service since we still have to actually go to the office and pay our bill and because they're actually about 2 months behind so, for instance, we just got our November bill. But it's the thought that counts and it's the closest thing to customer service that I've seen around here.

I also have a new roommate. She used to live about 5 streets down from me but her lease was up and she is waiting for permission to move to another city so, until the permission comes through, she's staying with us. She also uses the phone so she also had bills delivered to her in her old apartment. Yesterday we were coming in from somewhere and ran into this guy in the stairwell. We both recognized him from somewhere but couldn't place him and he kept saying 'hey customer' in Arabic and so we figured since he looked familiar and he obviously recognized us we probably didn't need to worry. When we got to our apartment there was a phone bill and then we figured out that he was the phone bill guy. But it wasn't my bill, it was hers. We don't really know how he figured out that she moved or where she moved to so that he could bring her bill, he just showed up. We don't even have addresses here and still this guy can track her down. No wonder we have all kinds of crazy people just showing up. Apparently it's not all that hard to find us!

What's kind of funny is that we don't even actually have a phone in our apartment. These phones are kind of wierd. You can just take them wherever you want and use them as long as there's the right type of wall plug in, although they're not wireless b/c you still have to plug them in but you can get Internet through the phone and you're billed based on the phone that you're using, not the location you're using....innovative technology in an unadvanced world still amazes me. We can't have all paved roads but we can have these magic phones?!? The phone that was in my apartment has never been in my name and we gave it to someone else a couple of months ago. Now my new roommate has hers at the office and uses it there. So at this point we have 2 phone bills being delivered to our apartment but no phones and the phone company has no clue...life is strange here in the Sandbox!