I've got that a couple times from Americans here... but coming from a Brit, I may think about getting worried. What's so scary?

>Now I get it <bg> - a pun. But you're still scaring me! :-)
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>>You've gone past it and have never noticed it, because you're native English speaker. Note the "pay" in "pay attention" - well, nobody ever explained me the methods of payment in such a cases, not to mention whom do I pay to.
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>>Besides, what's the price? What's the going rate of attention vs visit vs homage - which is more expensive etc... there's a whole fiscal labyrinth out there that nobody cares about. Yet everyone pays and pays... scary, right.