Sue is the one who brought AOL into my life. I was happy with my little ISP here. Happily surfing the net on Netscape or IE. Blithely going through my Internet life without the help of AOL. But then Sue comes along and she has AOL, so I had to figure out how to have AOHell here without paying a fortune in long distance charges. My guess would be that to have AOL over the last 6 plus years here in this house, I have spent the better part of $7579.44. And that's a low figure. There are little peripheral extras that can account for another few thousand in LAN modems and networking hardware and software and new computers, miscellaneous local, state and federal taxes and a lot of ups, downs and extras I will never know about.
DirectTv and Dish Network combined have not cost me that much over the years although I will admit, they are a chunk of cash I wish I had not had to put out for too. They would come out to somewhere around $6480. That's an average estimate. Now before Sue, I had my little 19.95 a month local ISP and my 2 business phone lines (which neither was a designated Internet line). The cable bill was never over $30 bucks a month. My total cost for everything before Sue would have been somewhere around $8712. With Sue, all entertainment and information highway costs have been loosely $14059.44. With that cost difference, I could have taken a really nice cruise leisurely around the world or put a nice down payment on a vacation home or Hummer. I could have invested it in a retirement plan or bought some kiss ass life insurance policy.
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