Utterly Mad

You know, that's a good hint that you should just quietly stop paying the bills, throw the phone in the trash, and get a different company. They wanna be a bunch of bitches about paying the phone bill, then they can get their wish and not get paid. :V

Just about everything here utility or service-wise is a crown corporation. Imagine AT&T, and then imagine that they get to write actual legislation, and do so completely overtly.

For example:

Because of the previously mentioned drinking problem, I had my liscence revoked by the provincial insurance company, who writes the laws detailing liscencing. They are, of course, inforced by the governmentally sanctioned paramilitary that acts as a federal police force here (which is a whole different story), but the laws come from the insurance company itself. In order to get it back, those laws state I must pay a high sum of money to attend a weekly rehab meeting, only legally available through one provincially owned company, and also pay a truely astronomical sum for a breathalizer to be installed in my vehicle by a different automotive service company, also conveniently owned by the province. This is in addition to the tickets and fines I must pay directly to the insurance company, which are separate from the ones I must pay to the towing company (guess who owns that), and separate from the ones I need to pay to the province directly.

Once that's all done, I'll also need to pay a greatly increased insurance rate to the same company, because private insurance is illegal here.

If I lived five minutes to the east, I'd just be barred from driving for a few years and have to pay fines to the province. Drunk driving is stupid, but that seems like a more reasonable way to deal with it, since many people simply can't afford to ever drive again otherwise. Accordingly, lots of people simply drive uninsured and unliscenced. If they get caught, they have to do pretty much all of the above, but with different re-education courses.

It's socialism at it's finest, I tell ya.

I caught a -1 too somewhere. You bastards.

It's ok Salt. I'll make it my goal to buff up every negative.

That was me. You can't be the only spotless active poster

Ok. Utterly Mad, the forum in which we openly conspire to control one anothers feelings of self worth through forum gizmos.

I caught a -1 too somewhere. You bastards.

It's ok Salt. I'll make it my goal to buff up every negative.

Oh look at you with your -1.
Get on my level.