clifffaith
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I will throw myself on the mercy of AT&T with no real hope of an adjustment, but thought I'd pick brains here first to see if anyone has an inkling why this would happen. Two weeks ago on Saturday afternoon, I placed a call from my AT&T business landline to my friend's cell phone 3 miles away on his boat in the marina in Los Angeles harbor. My business line has no long distance plan -- long distance was on my second/fax line and it runs $6/month because we rarely make an out of area call. My area code is 310, as is my friend's.
We both have back issues and I was calling to check on him because he'd had surgery six weeks prior. He can be a gas bag under normal circumstances, and with ailments to discuss the conversation lasted just over an hour. That day all he could do was putter on his docked boat because he is not physically fit enough yet to put it out on the water. I about died when I looked at the phone bill that arrived yesterday -- $148, and there are likely taxes on top of that. How is it possible that call cost so much? The man was literally a fifteen minute drive from me.
We both have back issues and I was calling to check on him because he'd had surgery six weeks prior. He can be a gas bag under normal circumstances, and with ailments to discuss the conversation lasted just over an hour. That day all he could do was putter on his docked boat because he is not physically fit enough yet to put it out on the water. I about died when I looked at the phone bill that arrived yesterday -- $148, and there are likely taxes on top of that. How is it possible that call cost so much? The man was literally a fifteen minute drive from me.