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As I may have mentioned before Landlords here are a nightmare. They want to take your money every month but do absolutely nothing for it! They seem to think they are not responsible for anything. Here we have water heating systems that are so old I've seen them in the UK yet they are in every house here! No central heating here! I have an electric water heater with an on/off switch - no timer! In my old apartment this had to be replaced twice resulting in World War 3 breaking out between me and my landlord. He didn't care that the water heater was broken so I called a plumber, had it replaced and only when the cost of this was missing from the following months rent did he care. After only 3 months in my new house the same thing has happened. I switch the water heater on and it tips the electricity in the house! Here we go again! The plumber came the next day and told the landlord that it is so old he should replace it so the landlord asks me if I want to go halves on a new one!!!!!!! Seriously!!! What planet do these people live on! Maybe he'll he go halves on a new car for me then, if that's how it works!!! The plumber even said it is broken from 20 years of calcium build up, not 3 months! In the end the landlord paid to repair it....some people are unbelievable!Just look at how much calcium the plumber took out and after 3 months the landlord wants me to go halves on a new one!!! Come on!
First friendly match of the season tonight against Steaua Bucarest. Speriamo bene.... Even Totti has travelled so we might see him. Forza Roma!
Today the draw was made for this Season and we have Napoli at home on the first day (31 August), followed by Palermo. Not the best start. First match at home with no away fans and possibly only season ticket holders isn't the best way to start a season. We play Inter at home on 19 October, Juve away on 2 November, the Derby (home) on 16 November and Milan is the second to last match on 11 January at home. At least the draw isn't as bad as last year, but at the end of the day we have to play all of the teams at some point. The whole Mutu saga has come to an end and we are still on the look out for a striker. Will we ever get one! We need to replace Mancini as well.Last night thieves stole Mexes' wife's car as she was returning home from a dinner in Axa. They drove the car off with Mexes' daughter still asleep on the backseat. Luckily they abandoned the car a few kms away and the girl was OK. She had slept through it all.
I went to get my Season ticket. Off I went to my local lottomatica thinking how great it was not to have to go all the way to a Roma Store.....as usual it wasn't to be so simple. As I wanted the discount for women I had to go to a Roma Store. Next stop the Roma Store in San Giovani. I filled in my form and went to pay and was told in order to get the discount I needed a photo. Why was this not mentioned any where on the Roma website???? Why do I need a photo?? Am I not obviously female????? I then had to go to the local metro station to take the photos (it's a 110 euro discount so i wasn't going to give up). I returned with the photos and finally got the go ahead! They cut round my head to squeeze my photo on the season ticket - stuck over the photo of Vucinic....it looks like something of Blue Peter! I could have made a better one myself! It looks ridiculous!
Finally the details for next season's abbonamento have been issued! Yip hee!! Even better news is that finally Roma are giving discounts to women! I will pay 110 Euro less this season!!! Fantastic! About time too. Lazio have been doing it for a while. However, we still pay more then them... Hopefully we will be a few more this season. We need to get the fans back at the stadium.I cant wait for the season to start. Just hope that we manage to off load Mancini for a decent amount of money and soon so that we can finally buy a decent striker. Not sure I'm so keen on the Mutu option. Just hope we manage to keep hold of Aquilani.
OK… so I moved apartment 3 months ago and despite asking the Gas Company to take the bill out of my name at the old house 3.5 months ago nothing has happened. Obviously as with most things here this is not a simple procedure! In England they send you the final bill to your new address and revert the bill at you previous address to The Occupier.
Two months after making the request they finally call me to make an appointment to come to the house and remove the gas meter! Apparently this is the only way I can get the bill out of my name!!!! Slight problem though…. I moved out of the house and no longer have the keys! Completely insane! Do they really have to go to such extremes to change the name on the bill? Obviously in the mean time bills are arriving for gas I haven’t used.
So we accepted the first appointment, having retrieved the house keys from the landlord. Since I have to work, like the most people, RB went to wait for the gas men to arrive. An entire afternoon of waiting and no one turns up. We make another appointment. This time the landlord intelligently gives me only the apartment door key and not the one to the main street door. Obviously the Porter chooses this day not to be there so I can’t even get in the building!
I have another appointment for next Friday so fingers crossed. How can they expect people to take entire mornings or afternoons off from work to hang around and wait for them? It’s disgusting. I guess I should just be glad that they didn’t just turn up and disconnect it before we had moved out, without any warning, like the electricity company did!
Just to add to the fun the Telecom Company cut my phone off on Saturday for no reason. I couldn’t even dial the helpline! RB called from his home and was told to call back if it wasn’t working again by Tuesday evening!!! What a service!!! When I asked if I would get a refund/ discount for the 4 days service which I have already paid for, and would not be provided with, I was met with shock! Will customer service ever exist here?!
