How do you deal with stupid people? Come up with stupid ideas!

This girl is the epitome of malicious compliance because she left everyone in the room speechless!

When a company wouldn’t close her late father’s account without speaking to him in person, she had to get creative to get them to understand how ridiculous this policy is.

Check out what happened!

You need to see my father in person? Zavara the Great Mystic of the Beyond shall grant your request.

My father died 20 years ago, and left me a tiny cabin house.

He loved that place, built it himself and tended to it religiously.

After he died, I couldn’t find it in my heart to visit, because every rock on the wall, every flower reminded me of him.

Things were always rough for her…

My mother never cared for it even when my dad was alive, so within a few months I realized that it would be a while before either of us would be ready to spend time there again.

As such, we called up the electricity, telephone, and water companies to shut off services to the cabin until further notice.

While other companies complied without an issue, the water company decided this request could be made only by the person whose name was on the bill.

This is where it gets interesting…

Mind you, their fee (due to zoning and a well on our property) was less than €2/month.

Repeatedly faxing the death certificates as well as next-of-kin transfer of the title got us nowhere.

Dozens of calls per month, several emails, in-person applications, smoke signals, interpretive dances, telepathy etc. nothing made any difference.

Both me and my mother were entirely flabbergasted, so we asked around and found out that indeed the process is unsolvable and, albeit not technically legal, people stopped paying those fees and the water would get shut off anyway as a result.

She simply didn’t want to go through so much work!

Getting any lawyers involved would not be worth the money, so we did just that, discontinued the connected bank account, and never gave it another thought.

2 weeks ago while at my family house, I got a call from the water company. They were closing inactive accounts at the 20 year mark, and my father’s cabin was up.

They did however tell me that 1) there was a pending sum of €11.93 to be paid for the account to be closed, and 2) the account owner themselves had to make the application to close the account.

She simply wanted them to understand her circumstances!

Once again I mention the whole “you know, he’s dead?” spiel and was passed over to a supervisor, but in a reminiscing demonstration of absolute absent-mindedness/stupidity, the response I got was “unfortunately they have to show up in person, as we need a paper copy for accounts older than X years, otherwise we can’t proceed”.

Now.

I don’t know how widely common this is, but in my country, you “rent” the burial site/grave in 3-5 year increments. My father’s grave’s 20 years were up in August and my mother decided it was time to unearth his bones and surrender the site.

UH OH!

As such, we had just been delivered a very respectful package with my father’s remains, cleaned and curated, only that week.

Everyone that has ever gone through this process would recognize that box for what it was. And what it was, was great timing.

2 days later, I went to the water company’s local office. I wore my most purple, silky, goth outfit, dark make-up, and “oh-so-heathen” jewelry, and carried a large bag with me.

It gets more intense!

I asked to speak to the same supervisor, who luckily for me was in an open-space area with their team’s director and quite a few more desks.

After confirming with her why I was there, she started telling me the whole “he needs to be here in person” thing again, but I interrupted her and told her “I know what you will say, so I brought him with me so he can tell you himself”.

That’s INSANE!

I plopped a Ouija board and the box with my father’s remains on the desk, and loudly shushed the area.

Heads turned, her director looked up with a “what the heck” expression, and the supervisor herself was frozen and wide eyed.

I placed my hands on the Ouija board and just as loudly started asking my father’s spirit to communicate with me, show me a sign he was there with us, reach out to me from the grave.

Everyone was silent, people walking by the door stopped and stared, I threw a few “Papa can you hear me?” in there as well, for dramatic effect.

She just went on and on!

In comedic timing that happens only once in a lifetime, I think a pen?/something small fell down from someone’s desk behind me, which against the silence was quite startling.

Excitedly I moved my hand to YES and proclaimed I needed his help in the form of his signature from the beyond, in order to close this account.

Finally the director snapped out of it and came over with an “alright I can help you over here, I think this is enough” but hell no it wasn’t.

I started gathering my things as I laid into him, how asking to speak in person with an indisputably dead man of over 20 years was beyond stupid and if I had to put up with their idiocy, they had to put up with the process required to get ahold of him.

They finally understood what they had done!

I also mentioned that denying someone’s legal title claim was lawsuit-worthy, so he immediately changed his tune that I could of course close the account.

He tried to bring up the fee but I cut him off with a “don’t even think about it” and walked out.

It’s still early but so far, there has been radio silence.

They were glad it all ended!

My mother thanked me for handling it, but when I suggested she should write to someone higher up about this, she just said “meh, not worth it, it’s over now”.

What a missed opportunity for a “water under the bridge” comment 😛

GEEZ! That is some drama!

What a creative and effective way of finally getting their attention!

Let’s find out what folks on Reddit think about this one.

This user shares how they were also in a similar situation.

This user knows the father can find peace now!

This user thinks it is absurd that the company was not equipped to deal with situations of dead people!

This user shares how things are with his father and how he deals with situations like this.

This user wants to know how burial sites work and is really curious about the system.

That company’s policies are so unreasonable!

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