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* '''Implied''': the mail includes a triple-folded list carrying the Verizon letterhead.
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* '''Parodied''': Alice is charged so much money that the phone company [[MadeASlave brings her into lifetime indentured servitude]].
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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
** Alice is charged so much money that the phone company [[MadeASlave brings her into lifetime indenturedservitude]].servitude]].
** Alice's jaw drops at a perfectly normal phone bill. It's not an unusual sum, she's just a cheapskate.
** Alice is charged so much money that the phone company [[MadeASlave brings her into lifetime indentured
** Alice's jaw drops at a perfectly normal phone bill. It's not an unusual sum, she's just a cheapskate.
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You've racked up a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill three million dollar internet bill]] by just [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife browsing TV Tropes all day]]?!
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You've racked up a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill three million dollar internet bill]] by just [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife browsing TV Tropes all day]]?!
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You've been [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife browsing TV Tropes all day]] and racked up a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill three million dollar internet bill?!]]
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You've been [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife browsing TV Tropes all day]] and racked up a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill three million dollar internet bill?!]]bill]] by just [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife browsing TV Tropes all day]]?!
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* '''Straight''': Alice gets her monthly phone bill. It amounts to $300, instead of the $30 she expected.
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* '''Straight''': Alice gets her monthly phone bill. It amounts to $300, $3000, instead of the $30 she expected.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.$300 on her phone bill instead of $30.
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** It's TheNineties, and the phone and the Internet share a phone line. Alice has been spending a lot of time online.
* '''Inverted''': The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error in billing.
* '''Inverted''': The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error in billing.
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** It's TheNineties, and the phone and the Internet share a phone line. Alice has been spending a lot of time online.
online, and her Internet bill was applied to her phone bill.
*'''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error inbilling.billing.
** Alice's reasonable $30 phone bill in the first month she used it consisted mostly of startup fees. It's just ''three'' dollars in each subsequent month.
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** The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error in
** Alice's reasonable $30 phone bill in the first month she used it consisted mostly of startup fees. It's just ''three'' dollars in each subsequent month.
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** Rather than use a conventional home phone or cell phone provider, Alice signs up for something like Google Voice. It only works on the Wi-Fi, but it also means Alice doesn't get a bill (other than what she's already paying for Internet service and/or a hotspot.)
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** Rather than use a conventional home phone or cell phone provider, Alice signs up for something like Google Voice. It only works on the Wi-Fi, but it also means Alice doesn't get a bill (other than what she's already paying for Internet service and/or a hotspot.) hotspot).
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** Alice blocks calls from anyone who's not on her contact list, so that scammers will not be able to reach her.
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** Alice blocks calls from anyone who's not on her contact list, so that scammers will not be able to cannot reach her. her.
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** Alice keeps abreast of current phone scams, and is GenreSavvy enough to hang up and block the numbers.
** Alice blocks calls from anyone who's not on her contact list, so that scammers will not be able to reach her.
** Alice blocks calls from anyone who's not on her contact list, so that scammers will not be able to reach her.
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** Rather than use a conventional home phone or cell phone provider, Alice signs up for something like Google Voice. It only works on the Wi-Fi, but it also means Alice doesn't get a bill (other than what she's already paying for Internet service and/or a hotspot.)
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice owes $300,000 on her phone bill instead of $30
* '''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice owes $300,000 on her phone bill instead of $30
$30.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.
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** Alice received the first year of service for a discount, but now that the first year is up, she has to pay full price.
** It's TheNineties, and both the phone and the Internet use the same phone line. Alice has been spending a lot of time online.
* '''Inverted''': The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error in billing.
** It's TheNineties, and both the phone and the Internet use the same phone line. Alice has been spending a lot of time online.
* '''Inverted''': The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error in billing.
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** Alice received got the first year of service for a discount, but now that the first year is up, she has to pay full price.
price.
** It's TheNineties, andboth the phone and the Internet use the same share a phone line. Alice has been spending a lot of time online.
online.
* '''Inverted''': The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error in billing.
** It's TheNineties, and
* '''Inverted''': The phone company pays Alice $300 for using their service, or as compensation for an error in billing.
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** Alice disputes the charges, and gets the bill brought back down to $30.
** Alice got Carol's mail by mistake.
** Alice owes $300, but she's a billionaire, so to her it's chump change.
** Alice got Carol's mail by mistake.
** Alice owes $300, but she's a billionaire, so to her it's chump change.
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** Alice disputes the charges, charges and gets the bill brought back down to $30.
$30.
** Alice got Carol's mail bymistake.
mistake.
** Alice owes $300, but she's a billionaire, so to her it's chump change.
** Alice got Carol's mail by
** Alice owes $300, but she's a billionaire, so to her it's chump change.
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** She still thinks that's excessive for a phone bill.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice's phone bill changes from month to month.
* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't have a phone.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice's phone bill changes from month to month.
* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't have a phone.
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** She still thinks that's excessive for a phone bill.
bill, rightly or wrongly.
* '''Parodied''':???
Alice is charged so much money that the phone company [[MadeASlave brings her into lifetime indentured servitude]].
*'''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice's phone bill changes from month to month.
month: sometimes she's overcharged by mistake, sometimes she's charged the correct amount, and sometimes she's undercharged (or even refunded money) by mistake.
*'''Averted''': '''Averted''':
** Alice doesn't have aphone. phone.
* '''Parodied''':
*
*
** Alice doesn't have a
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** The phone bill is in someone else's name.
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** The phone bill is in someone else's Bob's name.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "How is my phone bill $300?!"
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* '''Lampshaded''': "How is my phone bill $300?!"''three hundred'' dollars?!"
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** Alice gets drunk one night and dials a random phone number...which happens to be an Australian number.
** Alice calls a UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber, and is billed for every minute on the line, both the extremely long hold and the time spent with the operator.
** Alice's PhoneaholicTeenager sends ''way'' more texts or spends more time online with their phone than their data plan allows for.
* '''Exploited''': [[ConArtist Connor]] has Alice forward him to another number...and all other calls to Alice's number end up going there, too. Connor then tells his friends to call him collect on Alice's number, so he won't have to pay the bill.
** Alice calls a UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber, and is billed for every minute on the line, both the extremely long hold and the time spent with the operator.
** Alice's PhoneaholicTeenager sends ''way'' more texts or spends more time online with their phone than their data plan allows for.
* '''Exploited''': [[ConArtist Connor]] has Alice forward him to another number...and all other calls to Alice's number end up going there, too. Connor then tells his friends to call him collect on Alice's number, so he won't have to pay the bill.
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** Alice gets drunk one night and dials a random phone number...number ... which happens to be an Australian number.
** Alice calls aUsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber, UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber and is billed for every minute on the line, both the extremely long hold and the time spent with the operator.
operator.
** Alice's PhoneaholicTeenager sends ''way'' more texts or spends more time online with their phone than their data plan allowsfor.
for.
** Alice's cell provider {{blackmail}}s her when she sends her nude selfies to all her contacts.
* '''Exploited''': [[ConArtist Connor]] has Alice forward him to anothernumber...number ... and all other calls to Alice's number end up going there, too. Connor then tells his friends to call him collect on Alice's number, so he won't have to pay the bill.
** Alice calls a
** Alice's PhoneaholicTeenager sends ''way'' more texts or spends more time online with their phone than their data plan allows
** Alice's cell provider {{blackmail}}s her when she sends her nude selfies to all her contacts.
* '''Exploited''': [[ConArtist Connor]] has Alice forward him to another
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** Alice keeps a watchful eye on her phone bill, and ''immediately'' disputes anything that doesn't look right.
** Alice makes sure to ReadTheFinePrint on her phone contract.
** Alice uses parental controls to keep her teen from going over message and data limits, or at least gets a plan with unlimited messaging and data.
** Alice has the phone company block calls to international and premium-rate numbers, as well as blocking collect calls.
** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIP=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixed fee.
* '''Discussed''': ???
** Alice makes sure to ReadTheFinePrint on her phone contract.
** Alice uses parental controls to keep her teen from going over message and data limits, or at least gets a plan with unlimited messaging and data.
** Alice has the phone company block calls to international and premium-rate numbers, as well as blocking collect calls.
** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIP=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixed fee.
* '''Discussed''': ???
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** Alice keeps a watchful eye on her phone bill, bill and ''immediately'' disputes anything that doesn't look right.
** Alice makes sure to ReadTheFinePrint on her phonecontract.
contract.
** Alice uses parental controls to keep her teen from going over message and data limits, or at least gets a plan with unlimited messaging anddata.
data.
** Alice has the phone company block calls to international and premium-rate numbers, as well as blocking collectcalls.
calls.
** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIP=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixedfee.
fee.
*'''Discussed''': ???'''Discussed''':
-->'''Bob''': Alice, you haven't called me in eight months. Why?
-->'''Alice''': My folks revoked my phone privileges after I ran up a three-hundred-dollar bill.
** Alice makes sure to ReadTheFinePrint on her phone
** Alice uses parental controls to keep her teen from going over message and data limits, or at least gets a plan with unlimited messaging and
** Alice has the phone company block calls to international and premium-rate numbers, as well as blocking collect
** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIP=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixed
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-->'''Bob''': Alice, you haven't called me in eight months. Why?
-->'''Alice''': My folks revoked my phone privileges after I ran up a three-hundred-dollar bill.
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* '''Basic Trope''': A character is charged an enormous amount for a product or service.
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* '''Justified''': Alice (or someone in her household) made a lengthy international call to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** Alice (or someone in her household) made a lengthy international call to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
** Alice (or someone in her household) made a lengthy international call to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
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* '''Subverted''': Alice disputes the charges, and gets the bill brought back down to $30.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** Alice disputes the charges, and gets the bill brought back down to $30.
** Alice disputes the charges, and gets the bill brought back down to $30.
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* '''Double Subverted''': This month. Next month, the computer goofs up at Tropeland Bell, and she receives another $300 bill.
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* '''Double Subverted''': Subverted''':
** This month. Next month, the computer goofs up at Tropeland Bell, and she receives another $300 bill.
** This month. Next month, the computer goofs up at Tropeland Bell, and she receives another $300 bill.
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* '''Invoked''': Alice gets drunk one night and dials a random phone number...which happens to be an Australian number.
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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
** Alice gets drunk one night and dials a random phone number...which happens to be an Australian number.
** Alice gets drunk one night and dials a random phone number...which happens to be an Australian number.
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* '''Defied''': Alice keeps a watchful eye on her phone bill, and ''immediately'' disputes anything that doesn't look right.
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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** Alice keeps a watchful eye on her phone bill, and ''immediately'' disputes anything that doesn't look right.
** Alice keeps a watchful eye on her phone bill, and ''immediately'' disputes anything that doesn't look right.
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* '''Conversed''': ???
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* '''Conversed''': ??????
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** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIp=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixed fee.
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** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIp=] [=VoIP=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixed fee.
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** Alice received the first year of service for a discount, but now that the first year is up, she has to pay full price.
** It's TheNineties, and both the phone and the Internet use the same phone line. Alice has been spending a lot of time online.
** It's TheNineties, and both the phone and the Internet use the same phone line. Alice has been spending a lot of time online.
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* '''Subverted''': ???
Double Subverted: ???
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Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???
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Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???
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* '''Subverted''': Alice disputes the charges, and gets the bill brought back down to $30.
** Alice got Carol's mail by mistake.
** Alice owes $300, but she's a billionaire, so to her it's chump change.
*'''Double Subverted''': This month. Next month, the computer goofs up at Tropeland Bell, and she receives another $300 bill.
** As much as Carol owes on her bill, Alice owes more.
** She still thinks that's excessive for a phone bill.
*'''Parodied''': ???
Double Subverted: *'''Zig Zagged''': Alice's phone bill changes from month to month.
*'''Averted''': Alice doesn't have a phone.
** Alice doesn't pay bills.
** The phone bill is in someone else's name.
*'''Enforced''': ???
Parodied: *'''Lampshaded''': "How is my phone bill $300?!"
*'''Invoked''': Alice gets drunk one night and dials a random phone number...which happens to be an Australian number.
** Alice calls a UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber, and is billed for every minute on the line, both the extremely long hold and the time spent with the operator.
** Alice's PhoneaholicTeenager sends ''way'' more texts or spends more time online with their phone than their data plan allows for.
*'''Exploited''': [[ConArtist Connor]] has Alice forward him to another number...and all other calls to Alice's number end up going there, too. Connor then tells his friends to call him collect on Alice's number, so he won't have to pay the bill.
*'''Defied''': Alice keeps a watchful eye on her phone bill, and ''immediately'' disputes anything that doesn't look right.
** Alice makes sure to ReadTheFinePrint on her phone contract.
** Alice uses parental controls to keep her teen from going over message and data limits, or at least gets a plan with unlimited messaging and data.
** Alice has the phone company block calls to international and premium-rate numbers, as well as blocking collect calls.
** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIp=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixed fee.
*'''Discussed''': ???
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed:*'''Conversed''': ???
** Alice got Carol's mail by mistake.
** Alice owes $300, but she's a billionaire, so to her it's chump change.
*'''Double Subverted''': This month. Next month, the computer goofs up at Tropeland Bell, and she receives another $300 bill.
** As much as Carol owes on her bill, Alice owes more.
** She still thinks that's excessive for a phone bill.
*'''Parodied''': ???
*'''Averted''': Alice doesn't have a phone.
** Alice doesn't pay bills.
** The phone bill is in someone else's name.
*'''Enforced''': ???
*'''Invoked''': Alice gets drunk one night and dials a random phone number...which happens to be an Australian number.
** Alice calls a UsefulNotes/NineHundredNumber, and is billed for every minute on the line, both the extremely long hold and the time spent with the operator.
** Alice's PhoneaholicTeenager sends ''way'' more texts or spends more time online with their phone than their data plan allows for.
*'''Exploited''': [[ConArtist Connor]] has Alice forward him to another number...and all other calls to Alice's number end up going there, too. Connor then tells his friends to call him collect on Alice's number, so he won't have to pay the bill.
*'''Defied''': Alice keeps a watchful eye on her phone bill, and ''immediately'' disputes anything that doesn't look right.
** Alice makes sure to ReadTheFinePrint on her phone contract.
** Alice uses parental controls to keep her teen from going over message and data limits, or at least gets a plan with unlimited messaging and data.
** Alice has the phone company block calls to international and premium-rate numbers, as well as blocking collect calls.
** Alice decides that since she doesn't ''really'' use her home phone, she is going to get rid of the landline and just use a prepaid cell phone or a [=VoIp=] service with either no fee at all or a small, fixed fee.
*'''Discussed''': ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed:
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Subverted:
*'''Subverted''': ???
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*'''Basic Trope''': A character is charged an enormous amount for a product or service.
*'''Straight''': Alice gets her monthly phone bill. It amounts to $300, instead of the $30 she expected.
*'''Exaggerated''': Alice owes $300,000 on her phone bill instead of $30
*'''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.
*'''Justified''': Alice (or someone in her household) made a lengthy international call to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
** Alice was the victim of a scam; someone called, claiming they're calling from the county jail, and fat-fingered the wrong number but only get OnePhoneCall, and asked if she would forward them along to their spouse/lawyer/etc. She did, without realizing that ''all'' calls to her number get forwarded to the other number, which the scammer requested that people call collect. Since Alice doesn't get a lot of incoming calls, she had no idea anything was amiss until the bill came.
** Alice (or someone in her household) has been calling or texting a premium-rate phone number, going over a message or data limit, or doing {{Microtransactions}} with the phone.
** Alice is still leasing phones from the phone company, even though that practice became obsolete ''decades'' ago. She probably no longer has those phones, as they were rotary phones and now she has a touch-tone phone. The phone company has no incentive to inform her that she's paying them money she doesn't need to be paying.
Inverted: ???
Subverted: ???
Double Subverted: ???
Parodied: ???
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???
*'''Straight''': Alice gets her monthly phone bill. It amounts to $300, instead of the $30 she expected.
*'''Exaggerated''': Alice owes $300,000 on her phone bill instead of $30
*'''Downplayed''': Alice owes an extra $5 for voicemail or an unlisted number.
*'''Justified''': Alice (or someone in her household) made a lengthy international call to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
** Alice was the victim of a scam; someone called, claiming they're calling from the county jail, and fat-fingered the wrong number but only get OnePhoneCall, and asked if she would forward them along to their spouse/lawyer/etc. She did, without realizing that ''all'' calls to her number get forwarded to the other number, which the scammer requested that people call collect. Since Alice doesn't get a lot of incoming calls, she had no idea anything was amiss until the bill came.
** Alice (or someone in her household) has been calling or texting a premium-rate phone number, going over a message or data limit, or doing {{Microtransactions}} with the phone.
** Alice is still leasing phones from the phone company, even though that practice became obsolete ''decades'' ago. She probably no longer has those phones, as they were rotary phones and now she has a touch-tone phone. The phone company has no incentive to inform her that she's paying them money she doesn't need to be paying.
Inverted: ???
Subverted: ???
Double Subverted: ???
Parodied: ???
Zig Zagged: ???
Averted: ???
Enforced: ???
Lampshaded: ???
Invoked: ???
Exploited: ???
Defied: ???
Discussed: ???
Conversed: ???
