My wife, the lovely Avon, was complaining that the cable bill went up again. It seems to go up every January. I thought for a minute and then told her, “If we didn't have cable, I’d just be sitting here looking at you, and you’d be sitting there looking at me…and sooner or later, you’d be shooting at me…. We gotta have cable!”

Next we got a notice that the trash service is raising their price. After analyzing the cost of each service, I found that we pay at least 3 times as much for cable as we do for trash pick up…. That means it costs a lot more to bring garbage into the house than it does to take it out.