when was the last time you used a pay phone?

[WRESTLINGFAN]

I used one last week after losing my cell phone. I had to call verizon and cancel my service until i got a new phone. Its amazing how less and less pay phones actually work

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sometime in the last year.

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[mercury29]

It's been a while, but I remember asking Sara the operator, to patch my call through to Mayberry.

[FUNKMAN]

octobuary eleventeenth

actually "i can't remember" for me that could be a week ago but if i had to guess i would say several years...

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[sr71blackbird]

I had to use my sister in laws basement phone a few weeks ago, and it was an old rotary model! Pain in the ass, waiting forever for "9" to roll around. The last time I used a pay phone, there was a squished open ketchup packet in the coin slot. About 4 years ago, I was using a pay phone and I always use to peek into the coin slot to see if someone left a quarter in there, and it was full of change! Another time, I was on one and I look up and see theres this wallet on top of the phone, it had like $100 in it. I called the guy and told him I found it and he came to meet me and gave me $50.

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[KC2OSO]

huh - last time I went bowling, I picked a bowling ball from the rack that had ketchup in the finger holes. Somebody, probably the same guy who put ketchup in your coin slot, got a good laugh.

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[KennethC]

Actually, that would be last Saturday night to call my chick and explain why I was over an hour and a half late coming home from the bar. You see, I accidentally went record shopping.

I think this whole cell phone business is a passing fad, much like the CB.

A year ago I was in a swanky neighborhood in Portland to get a haircut. I went to make a call on a local pay phone, stuck the receiver to my ear, and found that someone had squeezed a tube of brown oil paint on the earpiece. So now I have a glob of crap-colored paint on my ear, with about 5 minutes until my haircut. I managed to duck into a hospital where I was somehow able to wash the paint of my ear, while a bunch of homeless guys camping out in there gawked at me. I suppose there's some sort of moral to this story. Or maybe it's just a buncha stuff that happened.

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[MattyBronx]

Pay phones have their advantages. For example, calls made from a pay phone don't show up on your cell bill for your wife to see.

Of course, I wouldn't know anything about that.

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[KC2OSO]

A whole site about payphones. (http://www.payphoneproject.com)

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[Wormwood]

3 weeks ago. I dont have a cell phone yet, I'm saving myself for the right one.

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[ChickenHawk]

The day before I got my cell phone.

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[Arienette]

How much do they cost these days?i had to use pay phones a couple of times this summer when my cell phone was dying on me. i used one upstairs in a building, and it cost 50 cents. then i went downstairs and used one one the street, and it was 25 cents. weird.

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[curtoid]

9/11/1 from downtown DC.

[newport king]

as a verizon tech let me just say, pay phones are usually a real pain in the ass to fix anyway, so if any of you were to pick up a job for a payphone would you:
a. spend all day fixing a phone that doesn't really belong to anyone and will get used maybe once a month
or
b. read the paper/take a nap and run a few errands.

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So now I have a glob of crap-colored paint on my ear

if it had been in jersey city, it would have been dog shit. consider yourself lucky. damn savages in this town.

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[Reephdweller]

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I'm on one right now.

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[MizzleTizzle]

as a verizon tech let me just say, pay phones are usually a real pain in the ass to fix anyway,


Ahh, cool someone with answers.

Q: I heard pay phones were on the way out, to be phased out actually, eventually; due exactly to the loss of demand due to ubiquitous cel phones. Ya? Na?

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[newport king]

Q: I heard pay phones were on the way out, to be phased out actually, eventually; due exactly to the loss of demand due to ubiquitous cel phones. Ya? Na?

hmmm i'm not sure what ubiquitous means but here goes.
well when i started with the company 7 years ago there was a seperate gang of guys that just serviced pay phones but since about 99% of people have cell phones they have since put those guys back into the regular workload. the demand really isnt there anymore.
they probably won't be phased out completely only because
a. quite a few of the phones you see, merchants actually own.
b. alot of what we call CLEC companies (at&t, sprint, and the ghetto compaines such as NJteleconnect) think its a way to make some money even though verizon owns all outside plant and has to do most of the work. btw if any of you have these companies as your local provider, if the problem is inside your house, good luck getting a tech out to fix it, heres a hint most of these companies don't have techs. i listened to some lady bitch to me yesterday about how she;'s been out of service for 3 months b/c whatever company she uses keeps trying to send verizon out to fix it and the problem isn't outside, its in her house which ain't my problem. so there you go i'm sure she uses pay phones.
c. incase of some sort of disaster i.e. september 11th when cell phones wouldn't work.




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[Tall_James]

when was the last time you used a pay phone?


last week when I sent the ransom demands.


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[Hottub]

I remember back in '71, Scorpio had me running all over San Francisco. From payphone to payphone.

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[JustJon]

I thought pay phones were made up for that movie Phone Booth. I went to 53rd and 7th and didn't see the one in the movie, so it must be made up.

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[Tall_James]

Please return my grandfather safely, James, I'll pay whatever you want (in pez and stockings, I-heh-I'm a little low on cash right now)

Uh...Dave? I haven't kidnapped your Grandpa, he's one of my crew. He's the expert with the Ether Rag.

If you want him back, just call him on his cell - he'll be right over.


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[curtoid]

I thought pay phones were made up for that movie Phone Booth. I went to 53rd and 7th and didn't see the one in the movie, so it must be made up.

A favorite one are here was "Die Hard 2" which has a scene filmed at Dulles International Airport, right outside DC, except that when Willis is on the pay phone phone around here it clearly says "Pacific Bell."



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[wilee]

Been so long, I can't remember.

I had a friend who worked for Verizon and took care of payphones in Monmouth County. He asked me to build 2 redboxes to test the upgrades they installed in the payphones (to specifically defeat them). Not that I would, er, uh, know what a redbox is or use one myself....



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[jocefus]

3 months ago..got really mad and threw my cell phone into a wall..only thing i had around to throw. ogt a replacement the next from verizon

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[reeshy]

Today, as a matter of fact....had to make a call from the subway and my cell wouldn't work and I actually found a pay phone on the 51 st subway station that worked....hell. I'm gonna win the Lotto!!!!!

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[JustJon]

MY friends and I were the source for red boxen back when I was in college. They became so prevalent on campus, the phone company finally "wised up" and they stopped working.

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[zathrus]

it was a little while ago. the day i killed my cell phone by droping it in a puddle.

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[Iamnotatool]

I was using one the other day, when some 4 eyed dork barged in on me, changed into a leotard right there in the booth, and pranced away like some sort of super hero faggot.


Oh yeah, Christopher Reeves is a cripple.

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