obsolete old saying

     Remember the old saying  "it's your dime"?  It doesn't mean anything anymore. Back in the old days it meant "you called me, what do you want?"  Back when only the person placing the call was charged for the call. The party who answered the phone didn't have to pay anything. Charging both parties to a phone call was a shocking idea at first, and many people resisted using cell phones because of it. Some are probably still refusing to get cell phones because of the two-way charge, when they can answer a conventional phone call for free--or place a toll-free call for free. If you place a toll-free call (an 800 number call ) with  a cell phone, you pay anyway. When annoying advertisers call you on your cell phone, you have to pay for the call. They are annoying with a conventional phone, but they don't cost anything. Now that everyone can talk on the phone from anywhere, we all have to consider whether or not we are willing to pay for the call. The phone rings, and if we don't know who it is, we don't pick up the call, and we don't return it--many people don't, anyway. Other people ( not so many ) are willing to spend money just to connect with a wrong number, or to find out how a salesperson got their number.