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Well, capitalism at its finest, right? Excuse me. I mean, I remember. Actually, Canada was not bad at the time when I was up there. I don't remember it being as, you know, very expensive. But when we went down to Arkansas, we wound up on a party line with like six or seven other people. And I know, I don't know, we are my parents would don't call anybody, you know, let them call us type of thing. And then later on in the early 80s. When I was 86. Yeah. I lived in Dardin. And Dardin was a very, very small town. And I could call a felon, which was like seven, eight miles away. And it was considered a local phone call, and it would, you know, they charge you just, you know, your monthly fee. But across the street, there was one of my friends, if I called him, every phone call was like $5. And it was just right across the street. I'm talking literally 100 feet away. You know, so I never could figure that one out. And then when I was on the road, if you want, like, if I was out in New Jersey, or something like that, I wanted to call my wife and just say hi to her. Like a five minute phone call was $10 through the pay phones. And we ran up some bills. When I was in Adak, Alaska. My wife paid the phone bill, I just always made a collect call because I could there was no phones up there pay phones. And we talk and sometimes we'd be on the phone for an hour or something like that. And I sent all my Navy check to our two jobs. I did the Navy and then I worked for Sealand, loading up containers on ships and taking them off right. Because I work one day on one day off with the nail on the Navy side. So the other day I was off, I'd work for Sealand. And but I'd send all my Navy pay home. And so when I finally got out of the Navy, because that was my last duty. She kept all the bills in the drawer and we were getting ready to move to Missouri. And I saw these bills and I looked at them and I started telling them up. And for that, it was 1415 months that I was up there in Adak. And it came to $7,500 in phone calls. And I was sparing I mean, I'd call me once a week. And we talked for about an hour. $7,500 for one year. You know, they got I have second job, right? She never said anything to me about it. So. And then we got our phone, we are landline all the way up to about 15 years ago. And we paid like $60 or something like that a month. And then when the phone got kept getting worse and worse and worse. AT&T was not worth a crap around here. At the time, then we finally switched over to Verizon. And we've been on Verizon for at least 20 years. And we haven't owned a landline since 20 years ago. And that's the history of how we use phones. Located in Shelton, Washington.