Tim: [answers phone] Hello? What? Hi, Mary Lou. Am I satisfied with my long-distance carrier?
Tim: [inner monologue] Tim.
Tim: Suppose. Yes. What?
Tim: [inner monologue] Hello?
Tim: No. Ma'am?
Tim: [inner monologue] Hey, bonehead!
Tim: Wait. Hold it. This is really a bad time for me.
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Tim: Okay, Mary Lou, let me get this straight. In order to get the mid-week discount of four cents a minute... Uh-huh. Yeah. Look, I have to call 1,700 times between Saturday and that following Thursday after 6:00. Just sign me up! No more phone calls.
Tim: [inner monologue] Well, that worked out well, Tim. Hour and a half on the phone, you saved 26 cents.