| I call BS $14000 is Just about 40 years of the lady's **ENTIRE** phone bill. That is a bit different from the actual amount she spent leasing the phone. The lease charges were a few dollars a month as I recall, *STARTING* in about 1982. Before that you had no choice. Your first phone came from the Phone Company. About that time they gave you the chance to buy your phone for about $25, which I of course did. I am still using that phone. It still has the number of where I lived then, too!
Now of course this little old lady has, probably spent $800-1500 for a phone that was probably worth $75 in 1960,
but the difference is qualitative as well as quantitative! |
