Will you put your money where your mouth is?

Talk, they say, is cheap. But it’s not really, is it?

My Dad recently reminded me of a very expensive phone call I apparently placed to America (I have no memory of doing so). I don’t know who I was ringing, but Dad grabbed the receiver to hear the person at the other end of the line tell him he has ‘a very polite little boy’.

My Dad was not nearly so polite when the phone bill landed! Equally, nobody appears to have let on to Vodafone that talk is cheap, as they burn a monthly hole in my pocket. Talk is, in fact, often very expensive. Except, much like my phone call to America, we are frequently not the ones who pay for our cheap words.