It's your dime.

grimreaper said

And you know the price for a phone call went way out of hand in "Sylvias Mother"!
And the operator says
"Forty cents more, for the next three minutes"

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He was probably phoning long distance.
He should have phoned ''collect''.
That's something you never hear anymore is people phoning ''collect'' or ''party lines'' either.