calling across the border
On the train recently travelling through Scotland, I was making conversation with an English woman who was in Scotland on business, a trip it turned out she made frequently from her home in the south of England. After she had received a call from her husband, conversation turned to the subject of mobile phones, as it often does when there is nothing to talk about. During the course of the conversation, she explained she did not like to use her mobile phone to call home when in Scotland, "because it costs more calling internationally on a mobile". This woman was about 35 and appeared reasonably articulate and intelligent in all other respects.

At least she didn't think Scotland was a county of England, I suppose.
(cybersquatter_, Sat 8 Jan 2005, 21:50, Reply)