Well, for a change, this bill may actually not be my fault, but I promised my mother I’d get to the bottom of it anyway. Recently, she got a collection letter for $70-something from 407 ETR, the nice folks who run a little toll highway just north of the city. We do use this highway from time to time, but not often, and since I do all my banking online, I quickly verified that I had paid any bills we’d received in, oh, say, the last four years since my father died and my mother took over the bills. So I emailed them through their website and they replied that the charge was indeed legitimate, from a second account that was no longer active… and for which we had not received a bill in anyone’s living memory. And $70 is a LOT of money, given that each trip on this little highway costs under $10. Then I went online and punched in the (inactive) account number, and discovered… this (rather badly cut n’ pasted together): You read that right (if your eyes are good enough) – it goes