The missus and I and the pea-in-the-pod have been in Austin for about three and a half months now, and even today we have fully divested ourselves of California by getting our Texas driver’s licenses.

Until…I got an AT&T bill for our old Los Angeles phone service.

Even though I paid the final bill two months ago, and squared up the closing balance, AT&T felt it was necessary to kill trees, waste printer ink, and pay the postage to send me a bill for a whopping….are you ready? SEVENTEEN CENTS.

Here’s the proof with the important information redacted:

I’m not a business man. Nor do I have a single entrepreneurial bone in my body. However, I do know that it will cost AT&T more to bill me for $0.17 than any gain in revenue they get from the bit and a half I owe them. Best part is, they didn’t even include a return billing envelope to send it back to them.  I guess this is just to put me on notice.

Tomorrow, I will place a dime, a nickel, and two pennies in an envelope and mail it.