I suppose we were being dim, but we thought we were paying it because we were paying in some of our utility costs some sort of communications service..separate from cable - might have been an antenna. We would have paid it earlier had we known... I really thought that billag was part of what we were paying. But I was wrong.

So in December, some guy knocked on our door at dinner time, and my husband talked to him, and it turned out we weren't paying it after all. So I just got and paid the first quarterly bill from December 1 on. It was a lot better than it could have been, and now I expect we'll continue to get and pay quarterly bills.

We have had people from cable here, we've bought a car and a TV and it simply was never mentioned. I suppose everyone simply knows about it.