Vodafone UK SMS tariff: 14 pence a text

How does everyone else do it?  I must be missing a trick.  Really, I must.  Everyone who’s on Vodafone, they just simply eat the cost?  Even, you know, mobile experts?  And people who think they know a lot but don’t quite, like me?

14 pence to text someone after you’ve run out of inclusive texts?  EVEN on their Anytime 1000 plan? 

No wonder I was getting bills of hundreds of pounds a month. 

My head really does button up the back.