Will you put your money where your mouth is?

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

Comment Stephen Kneale

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’.