Posted by kazoo on August 31, 2001, at 9:51:54
In reply to telephone $$ » Willow, posted by sar on August 31, 2001, at 2:16:15
> it is now $0.50 to use the public phonez...
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The rate went up several weeks ago. When it was 25 cents, you had a 3 minute limit. After 3 minutes, you had to plunk in another quarter. With 50 cents, however, you can talk until the cows come home (unlimited). But, if you read the policy statements on the opening pages of *any* phone book it clearly states that anyone using a public phone cannot stay on that particular pay station for more than 3 minutes. So here is a communications company raising the rate by 100 percent for "unlimited" usage, but their policy states otherwise. I once threw someone off a public phone using the 3-minute rule. I attacked them with the Manhattan directory.> cheap bastards.
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No, cheapness had nothing to do with it ... GREED had everything to do with it.> and stamps are what, $0.33?
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Where have you been because stamps have been 34 cents for the past year.I just got my electric bill and nearly fainted. Northeast Utilities socked me with a "fuel adjustment cost" from last March and the bill is 36 percent higher than last month.
This is just the beginning, I afraid.
Prepare yourselves for the revolution: The "Haves" v. The "Have-Nots"
Protest.
Write those lackies in Congress for your state to GET OFF THEIR HANDS and do something.
Don't get me started on this crap.
And don't forget that the CEO of Lilly made 100 million last year for his salary.
And he's probably the one using the slugs at telephone pay stations along the New Jersey Turnpike.
Kazoo, a former YIPPIE
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