Many Canadians get angry about paying what they consider too much for mobile phone service, but when Sue Ellen Parrott got a cellphone bill for more than $10,000 she said she just laughed. “I thought it was some sick joke,” she told Global News.
But the bill from Virgin Mobile was bona fide. Parrott hadn’t crossed any international borders or lent her phone to a video-gaming child.
In fact, she hasn’t had much in-person contact with her three children since she started living apart from them as the COVID-19 crisis began.
As a personal support worker in a long-term care home who has been caring for coronavirus patients, she said the distance is for her kids’ safety. “I haven’t touched them since March,” she said, trying to hold back emotions