TVA – a one act comedy
November 28, 2009
“Hello! Mrs. Jones?
This is Johnny Upcharge from the TVA; I was just calling to say how much we appreciate your business.”
“Yes?”
“And I know you won’t appreciate that our rates are going to have to increase, you know, from all those billions of dollars we had to spend extra.”
“I heard about the Kingston collapse and the air pollution in North Carolina but what does that have to do with me? I pay my light bill, I have no other choice.”
“I’m sure you do pay it, Mrs. Jones. But let me try and explain what happened.”
“You see, at the Kingston plant, we had no idea that ash dam would break last December, it had just rained and the weather turned colder and somebody said there had been an earthquake”.
We’re still trying to find the root cause of it.” “It’s very complicated.”
“Oh? So you’re saying you will not increase my light bill until you find out?”
“Actually, we’ll have to start sooner than that Mrs. Jones, a lot sooner”.
“And?”
“And you’ll have to start paying more for the scrubbers that a federal judge said we’d have to buy, just for you and …
“Click.”
Are you there Mrs. Jones? Hello? Hello?”
A Comedy in One Act by
Ernest Norsworthy
emnorsworthy@earthlink.net
http://norsworthyopinion.com