We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Andy Cap
saying something like:

From experience. I think they'll still give you an initial discount,

Yep. Cheap as chips on first going with them.

so like
everyone else, the following year you have to check again,

A 50% increase for year two.

but this time I
decided to stay with them.

Ditto; after some reduction.