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Love at first click: Anger at the increase in electricity prices turns into joy at a happy relationship

2023-01-17T11:10:27.459Z


Rising electricity prices can also have something good. And in the best case, they even bring people together and lead to a love story. Like Monika Graßold from Ismaning and Wolfgang Backes from Moosburg, who met for the first time at Munich Airport after an online flirt.


Rising electricity prices can also have something good.

And in the best case, they even bring people together and lead to a love story.

Like Monika Graßold from Ismaning and Wolfgang Backes from Moosburg, who met for the first time at Munich Airport after an online flirt.

Airport/Moosburg – It all started in November last year: Monika Graßold, 66, received a letter from her electricity provider, the Ismaning Power Supply (SVI).

The content of the letter was not very pleasant.

It was about the “adjustment of electricity prices as of 1.1.

2023”: The energy price alone, which is usually the most important variable for the amount of an electricity bill, should therefore increase for the pensioner from 24.55 to 59.64 cents – an increase of a whopping 145 percent.

The monthly basic price should also be higher from now on: Instead of the previous 8.69 euros, Graßold has been paying 16.08 euros since the beginning of the year.

Overall, they incurred an electricity price increase of over 200 percent.

The Munich Merkur reported on the case, which was discussed a lot and heatedly on the Internet.

Wolfgang Backes also read this article and was surprised: The 62-year-old transport company, divorced since 1994, had also received a price increase from his electricity supplier (Vattenfall), "but not by this amount".

Since January 1, he has had to shell out "only about 30 percent more," he says.

"I then contacted Monika via Facebook and advised her to switch providers." A nice gesture, she thought - and wrote back.

A longer chat ensued, in which the topic of electricity prices began to play an increasingly minor role.

"Otherwise I don't look as grumpy as in the Mercury photo," said Graßold, among other things.

Backes' spontaneous reaction: "I have to convince myself of that directly," he chatted back boldly, now in flirting mode.

That worked.

Graßold and Backes met on "neutral ground" on Boxing Day, in the Airbräu at the airport.

"It's also quiet there, you can talk in peace there," says Backes.

He was quite impressed when he met his internet acquaintance: "She looks even better than in the photo," he thought.

During the Weißwurst breakfast that followed, the two got closer.

"It was love at first sight," Backes would later say.

"It hit like a bomb," says Graßold.

"It wasn't planned," she says.

Because: "I lived alone for eight years and got along very well." After a severe disappointment, she actually "didn't want to have any male image in the house anymore".

Actually.

And things have not only changed for her privately: she has also changed her electricity provider in the meantime.

Source: merkur

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