06
Feb
09

let that be a warning

This is a cautionary tale about an American who died after the utility company cut off his electricity – he took 4 days to freeze to death.  How long did the gas ‘situation’ go on for in Kiev?  Well, the reason for the cut off was because this old bloke didn’t pay his bill. 

This reminded me of December time when a notice with names and numbers was posted on the front door of our building.  We pondered over this for a few days (read: we looked at the notice and thought – yep, whatever that means - as befits all notices in our building) until I eventually bumped into lovely Dmitri (a story for another day involving our neighbour and his underpants) who explained that this was a list of apartments in our block and their outstanding utility bills.  brrrrrrrrrr could have been chilly in there…….

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7 Responses to “let that be a warning”


  1. 1 Little Miss Moi
    February 6, 2009 at 7:49 am

    “bumped into lovely Dmitri (a story for another day involving our neighbour and his underpants)…”

    And a car and his wife!

    Can’t wait to hear it.

  2. 2 mindthegapkiev
    February 6, 2009 at 8:01 am

    Now I must just psyche myself up – I have tried to supress that particular nugget. As it were.

  3. 3 Katharine
    March 3, 2009 at 6:30 am

    Just dropping by.Btw, you website have great content!

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  4. May 21, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    Нет,по настоящиму улыбнул 8 пункт,просто представил такую ситуацию ))).

  5. May 25, 2009 at 5:55 am

    Почему подписка еще бесплатная? :) )

  6. January 12, 2010 at 2:20 pm

    I’ve really enjoyed reading your stories (I followed your link from Expat Blog) – but you haven’t written for a while, are you still in Kiev?

    J.

  7. 7 mindthegapkiev
    February 21, 2010 at 3:49 pm

    Hi JC, thanks for your visit to my poor old blog. I am not in Kiev any more, but looking back on these stories is fun. your blogs are most amusing by the way.


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