Happy go lucky gas meter man!
When I was a student the summers consisted of getting any kind of work that offers income for not much effort... luckily it turned out that British Gas were up to something and needed lots of extra meter readers for the summer...

SO, I attempted the job properly for about a week and began to realise that people dont want their meters read and generally could be difficult about it.

I'd had fun until then... I'd flirted with any woman who appeared to be under 30 and answered the door. I'd even fooled about with one lady who on reflection was probably quite a dirty slut but anyway I was young and had an idea...

I reckoned that generally people used between 50 and 100 units of gas since their previous readings... So I went to an off licence, bought a 3 litre bottle of cider and went to the park... Where I proceeded to randomly make up peoples meter readings by adding a number between 1 and 100 to their previous reading.

After about 2 weeks of doing this I was challenged on a few readings. At first I claimed "maybe" I got 2 numbers round the wrong way, or mixed it up with another house but I think I was consistently off the mark and told "my service was no longer required". I still sat in the park on sunny weekdays getting pissed but alas was not getting paid for it ;-)
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 16:53, Reply)