"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:47BDC0D0.8090000@comcast.net...
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> 35 cents a minute? Gawd! If my mother or my stepmother had lived to see
> cell phones, they would have talked sixteen hours per day and the family
> would have been bankrupt!


Really? My mother, after having a cellphone for several years still wonders
why there's no dial tone.

I think she's used 10 minutes in the last 12 months. (Thank you, T-Mobile,
for a $10/year minimum refill policy!) ;-)