A woman found out through the mail that she was dead, or at least that the gas company thought she was:
A grandmother has been forced to tell her gas supplier: 'I'm not dead yet.'
Frances Tootell received a letter from British Gas informing her itwould be her final bill and any further bills would be sent to herexecutor.
'It was like reading your own obituary. I checked my pulse and I was alive and well,' said the 75-year-old, from Preston.
British Gas apologised for the mistake, blaming 'human error'.
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Happened to me once. A woman's husband died, some years later I married her. She changed the name on the telephone bill and all of that but then 4 years after we married she died. I notified the telephone Co and had the phone disconnected in preparation to move out of town. When I got my new place I couldn't get my phone hooked because of "unpaid bill". I called and told the persone I knew I owed for the closing bill but it was not due yet. She put me on hold. Half an hour later with intermitent statements of "working on it" A woman came on and asked if I had a good sense of humor.
It seems the thelephone company, when they got the notice of her death decided to update their records. They entered the death of her husband 8 years previous and her death but they evidently never noticed the name change. The woman on the phone said according to their records I had been dead for 8 years. She said she noticed that I had been signing checks and thought I had good penmanship for a dead person. I told her I had wondered what the terrable smell around the house was. My phone was hooked up the next day.
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"We're sorry to inform you of your untimely demise; we know that it is a result of the contents of the "amount due" box in the lower right-hand corner that you're about to view."
Kerplunk.