$433.50?!?

After coming home in a fairly good mood - despite a grueling day at work on the 2008 Budget, TWX tanking and the heat & humidity - my doorman greeted me with "There's something here for you Saunders". Great, I thought, my new window shades have arrived. No, not quite, he hands me a folded piece of paper. It was the bill from the plumber who had recently fixed a leak in my kitchen sink drain. I unfolded it and all I could say for the next 10 minutes was $433.50?!? I guess I should have been a plumber rather than gone into finance. $400.00 for Labor & Materials and $33.50 for NYS/NYC taxes. Oy vey!

Here's a picture of the offense bill