![Photo of phone taken in Cathedral Gate Hotel, Canterbury](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtmYndV7WiZsBnzwhXSRaahbNgdKyjHDy85LxtJNE03W3g7aMrCpXo-z0FdS3By6QxvaaGBXsi4I80QLuqUiTdIf9ohUhx1vhmeuumG48qniuDHB6To7wl4DoXBIiXHyDGihJhtZigGG8/s400/phone-20p-per-unit.jpg)
The note on the phone reads '20p per unit' - but what does a unit get you? There's no indication, so the information that a unit costs 20p is entirely unhelpful.
Or is there such a thing as a widely known, standard 'telephone unit'?
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2 comments:
Isn't it three minutes?
It might well be on a Telecom bill, Ridger, but hotels charge what they like so I'd agree that 'unit' is meaningless. Judging by bitter experience I'd bet you wouldn't get more than a minute for 20p, and probably less.
On the same theme, one of the supermarkets is advertising an allegedly bargain price of £5 for a "platter" of party food. And in this case not only don't they say how big the platter is, they're pretty vague about what's on it.
"I'd like a nice dish of caveat emptor, please."
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