Thermalgal’s Temperate Mumblings

We are out of Propane!

December 14, 2005 on 1:00 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off on We are out of Propane!

DH woke me up to the news that we are out of propane. I hope we won’t have to wait a month for Amerigas to get their ass in gear. Remember this company? They are the ones who we tried three times to get the tank at the old house filled and they never followed through. And when Dr Lee finally got the tanks filled they charged something like $2/gal for one load and then $3.50/gallon the following day!

So DH called them last week and they say, we need to fill out some forms, prepay the first delivery, and have an inspection before we can get the propane delivered. No problem. We wait and wait and wait for the forms to arrive (they arrived on Saturday). Meanwhile on Friday the propane truck arrives and can’t fill up the tanks because the shed under the sunroom is lock (well, duh, we didn’t know they were coming!). We ran to WVa (where the Amerigas offices are) to deliver the completed forms on Sunday. But the stupid company has no drop box. We ended up finding a mail box and mailing it to them from a block away. Hopefully they got it yesterday. Probably not Monday since the stupid mail box didn’t get mail collected from it until 3pm. And we still haven’t heard anything about scheduling an inspection (which they will hopefully show up for this time!).

So, now we are out of propane. And gee, it is what 12°F outside? DH said it went into single digits last night. So, we’ve turned off the fireplaces and turned up the baseboard heat. And we have no cooktop right now. I hope the stupid propane truck shows up soon! Even Pushkin is cold!