License for TV, what?

I just had a very intresting conversation over the phone. I had gotten a bill, one that I thought I shouldnt have to pay.

Where I live one must pay a license fee just to have a TV. Its retarded. First of all, if you have a license for anything, it usually means that you had to learn how to use it. Like a gun license and such. Now if someone came home to me to educate me how to use a TV, they'd get punched in the face to begin with. If they asked me if I wanted them to come and show me how the TV works, they'd get punched in the face.

I dont need anyone to tell me how a TV works, so in my opinion I dont need a license for it. Even if somehow I could understand what this is, other thahn just another way to make money off my ass. I could never understand why you need to pay for this so called license ever 3 months. Pay it once and then its done, ok I could probably do that just to get them off my ass. But every 3 months, really?

So anyway, I got this bill from them. And just seeing the damn bill made me mad as a hornet. First of all I'm just renting a room in an apartment, and the guy im renting from is paying his license. Second off, I dont even own a TV. And they keep sending me these damn bills anyway.

So I called them up, tried to breath slow and deep so that I wouldnt explode in their face the first thing I do. Even though it would have felt really nice to just scream at them and explain to them how incredible retarded they are, I'm not stupid. Well, im not that stupid anyway. I imagine alot of people call them and scream everyday. So I'm trying to keep my calm and going to try and reason with them.

Even though I have to listen to elevator music for 15 minutes while waiting for them to answer. I bet they think that that music will calm any angry customers that are calling, I also bet they are wrong.

Finally after 15 minutes on hold a woman answers. I explain to her that I got a bill that I have no intention of paying, that I'm only renting a room and have been so for quite awhile now. Then she tells me that 6 months ago they called me and that I then had admitted to having a TV.

Which I may or may not have done, I might have been drunk and admitted to anything.

So I'm telling her its not my number, must have been someone else. She checks up the number on the internet, and Im crossing my fingers that im not listed. Turns out im not listed, good for me!

Then she proceed with telling me that even if the guy who I rent from is paying his license, I have to pay for a license myself as well. If I have a TV.

I dont own a TV...

What use would I have of a TV anyway? there's always crap on TV anyway, and inbetween the crap there's commersial. Yeah, I'm no TV person.

Still keeping my calm here, but its getting really hard to put up a calm surface for this woman. So I once again explain how I rent a room, I have no TV whoever they called 6 months ago wasnt me, and I have never spoken with them before.

Lucky me, I'm pretty convincing. It only took me maybe 10 minutes to explain all this to her in a way she'd understand. And she finally told me I didnt have to pay any TV license, and thet she would remove me from their pay list or whatever it is they have.

If I ever get another bill from them I will send them a gift back. This gift may or may not contain explosives.