Oh My God, I'm Dead!

And I thought I was just tired. At least I have a good excuse now for missing my staff meeting this morning.

I called Union Gas to ask them to send a letter to my new utility companies so that I don't have to pay a security deposit. I also asked them about a credit balance that was supposed to be sent to me from when I lived in Hamilton. I never got it, and really wasn't all that worried about it. perhaps it had been an error that got corrected. but perhaps they had sent a cheque and it got lost and they could send a new one.

So they asked a few quesitons to confirm my identity. Which they didn't need to do to send me a letter... But here' the reason they needed to ask. According to them, I was deceased.

After we had separated, my wife told them that I was dead so that she could get this credit balance of $67.67 transfered to her own account.

Which leads us to today's tip for criminals: If you are going to commit fraud (and it can be a good source of income), make sure that you at least make it worth enough money to hire a lawyer.

That is, if you don't mind taking advice from a dead man.