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View Poll Results: Who carries a quarter to make a call from a pay phone?
I do. 5 6.67%
No, I have a mobile phone. 57 76.00%
I thought pay phones only cost 10 cents. 13 17.33%
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Old 07-23-2018, 01:23 PM
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I use them for parking meters or tolls...got to pay the man!
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Old 07-23-2018, 01:54 PM
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Hahahahha! I'm pretty sure I know who said that LOL! It was the same curmudgeon yelling at a clout iirc.
I mostly communicate in simpsons quotes.
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Old 07-23-2018, 02:00 PM
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stop!

they are still ALL over NYC. there is one right outside my office building actually.

i do miss the days of payphones actually. i wish they were more widespread still, but to R3's point above, they are very few and far between these days, and carrying a quarter hoping you will run across one if you need it is a dangerous assumption.
crazy man, I must be going crazy or just don't pay attention to the outside world but I haven't seen one in ages. I know they removed them from subway stations. now I am going to be on the lookout when I walk home tonight.
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Old 07-23-2018, 02:00 PM
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I build a fire and send smoke signal or send a telegraph.
My mini-pump has built in semaphore flags.
Also I can use my front light as an Aldis lamp.
(H/T to Monty Python)
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Old 07-23-2018, 02:02 PM
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A quarter seems like a lot to carry unless this is an extended bikepacking trip or something.
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Old 07-23-2018, 02:03 PM
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Every time I travel with a quarter, it goes in the fuel filler lid, so therefore it's outside of the car and "I don't know how it got there."
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Old 07-23-2018, 02:31 PM
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I still carry a dime.
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Old 07-23-2018, 02:50 PM
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Are we sure they only cost $.25?? I swear they are $.35 now...
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Old 07-23-2018, 03:04 PM
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I now have an excuse to take a flicka of the last pay phone on the Mean Streets of South Pasadena.
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Old 07-23-2018, 03:07 PM
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only a 100K payphones left in the US, down from 2M in 1999...

one-fifth of those in NY.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/new...nes/index.html
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Old 07-23-2018, 03:11 PM
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I mostly communicate in simpsons quotes.
Sometimes it drives my wife crazy
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Old 07-23-2018, 03:24 PM
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I get the need in some sense. How would you be able to respond when your beeper goes off and its urgent?
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Old 07-23-2018, 03:27 PM
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only a 100K payphones left in the US, down from 2M in 1999...

one-fifth of those in NY.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/new...nes/index.html
Wow if it costs $100k to use a payphone no wonder they all went away!
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Old 07-23-2018, 03:32 PM
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I build a fire and send smoke signal or send a telegraph.
That's what burned down half of Sandy Eggo Co in the first fire

Here in the DC area, I doubt you could start a fire 'cause things are so green.

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Old 07-23-2018, 03:34 PM
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Think they’re 50cents here

Used to tuck a quarter under the rubber hoods on my brake levers years ago for emergency pay phone calls.

Love having a cell phone nowadays.




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