Water

In our little town in Northern NJ, we have our own water company. At last count we have something like 8,000 households.

And a water company.

These are civil servants, no doubt working with their sister and cousin.  They do virtually nothing, so it is a sweet deal.  Our kids will be paying for their retirement packages long after we are gone.

When I first got here, I thought their billing cycle was weird - get a bill on the 10th, payment by the 15th.  So I (stupidly) called and said every other bill in the known universe is due at the end of the month.  Would you be so kind as to adjust things?

Being civil servants, their immediate response was NO!  It might make more work for them.

So these days, I pay when I feel like it. But I keep a careful eye on the valve out front.  If a town truck sneaks up, I sic Tiger on them.