Like every red-blooded Oklahoman that pays their bills as on-time as they desperately can—give or take a shut-off notice or two—the one bill that always surprises me, and never in a good way, is OGE. I have to take their lawgiving word on the said amount I owe, mostly because there are no other electric companies to provide me with the absolute power I so desperately need to live a fast-paced modern life like I pretend to.
In other words, it’s their way or the unlit, darkened, possibly haunted highway.
But, as I’ve long accepted that fact this is how an energy monopoly works in my immediate area, I’ll admit I tend to look forward to the small bonuses they give their electrical contingency, the best being the overbilling credits that surprisingly pop up on your ledger, taking a few dollars right off the top. The worst being, of course, an additional charge from many years ago that they have surprisingly just found and added to your bill with an additional late fee.