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Title: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: warhawk on March 02, 2008, 05:09:41 AM
hello fellow chrome domes....just wondering... when was the last time U  used a pay phone??  i'll start:  since i bought my 1st cell phone back in 2001...i haven't used a pay phone.  so... i guess the last time i used a pay phone was back in 2001. 

so...how 'bout U?  when was the last time U  used a pay phone?  and when was the 1st time that U bought your 1st cell phone?  i'm looking 4ward 2 reading your responses.  what's your story?

WARHAWK O0
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Razor X on March 02, 2008, 06:53:56 AM
On a rainy and miserable Thursday night about three years ago. I'd just finished working out at the gym and when I got to my car, found it wouldn't start.  As luck would have it, I'd left my cell phone at home that night, so I had to go back into the gym and use the pay phone to call my dad to come and get me.   :-[ :-[ :-[

I was shocked when I saw how much the price of a call from a pay phone had gone up -- it was something like 60 or 70 cents for one local call.  It just wasn't my night; I didn't have a whole lot of change with me either, and I can remember trying to scrape enough together to make the phone call.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Medic aka Rocko on March 02, 2008, 07:55:00 AM
I can't remember the last time I even seen a payphone. 
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Rob on March 02, 2008, 07:58:48 AM
I used a pay phone about a year back, but only because I'd come out without my mobile by mistake.  Before that i hadnt used one for five years or so, and they had changed a lot - hardly even knew how to operate it, and the price had gone WAY up :o
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Robmeister on March 02, 2008, 08:43:53 AM
What the hell is a "pay phone"?




honestly can't recall the last time I used one'a them dinosaurs.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: mojim on March 02, 2008, 09:17:51 AM
They still have those things...LOL 
Last time I used one was around the last time I used a rotary phone..
But I guess there are those who still need one...
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Medic aka Rocko on March 02, 2008, 01:04:32 PM
They still have those things...LOL 
Last time I used one was around the last time I used a rotary phone..
But I guess there are those who still need one...

I still have a rotary phone in my basement, works perfectly.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: nomad on March 02, 2008, 01:15:55 PM
Its been along time, I've had a cell for years. I see people using them all the time and wonder to myself in these days why would anyone ever need one, even if you can't get a regular service cell theres always the prepaid. Hell I haven't even had a home phone in a few years
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Jdogs Better Half on March 02, 2008, 02:03:41 PM
Last time we used a pay phone was in the US - cos we were OS we didn't have our cell phones so about 2 years ago, before that - I cant even remember have had a cell since I was about 15.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: mojim on March 02, 2008, 03:14:55 PM
Not that there's anything wrong with a rotary phone.... O0
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: SLYinKC on March 02, 2008, 03:17:57 PM
What the hell is a "pay phone"?
honestly can't recall the last time I used one'a them dinosaurs.


Same here.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: JDog on March 02, 2008, 03:58:38 PM
Pay phone? I'm thinking around 1999 was the last time I used one those things.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Medic aka Rocko on March 02, 2008, 07:32:32 PM
Not that there's anything wrong with a rotary phone.... O0

I'd like to have someone "implant" a cell phone in it.  That would be pretty funny, walk around carrying this old rotary phone.  I suppose someone could for the right amount of $$$$.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Timmay on March 02, 2008, 07:49:49 PM
Im not really sure when I used a payphone last.  I remember a few months ago I seen a payphone and I just picked it up to see if it still worked.....and it didnt.

My first cell phone was probably about 14 years ago....it wasnt actually a cell phone...it was a bag phone.  Remember those...yeah...but buddy...you bet your ass I was cool dude.  Cause I could drive around and talk to my friends.  Cell phones have come a long way.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Tyler on March 02, 2008, 09:06:06 PM
I honestly can't remember when. 
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Mikekoz13 on March 03, 2008, 05:40:13 AM
Pay phones are cesspools of disgusting germs.......... no thanks!
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Timmay on March 03, 2008, 08:56:58 AM
Mike ....Havent you ever had phone sex on a pay phone before?? LOL.....
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Mikekoz13 on March 03, 2008, 10:07:21 AM
Well Tim I tried but I couldn't get the "little guy' in those teeny holes............
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Sgt. Pate on March 03, 2008, 10:14:45 AM
What's a "Pay Phone"?  :P  (Yeah, it's been THAT long!)
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: marshd1000 on March 03, 2008, 12:32:58 PM
I got my first cell phone in 2006.  So I think that was the last time I have used a pay phone.  I might have since then if I forgot my cell.   But I honestly can't remember.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: fireman on March 03, 2008, 04:01:01 PM
can't remember the payphone but the cell phone was in 1990-91.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: PigPen on March 03, 2008, 04:54:14 PM
Used a pay phone just a few weeks ago. Absolutely HAD to have a land line to transmit information to the doctor's office. I've had a cell phone off and on for the past 10 years.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: champ007 on March 03, 2008, 07:26:59 PM
Its 198?  , hell sometime in the eighties when I needed my brother to pick my drunk ass up! `Dr!n#
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: wpruitt on March 04, 2008, 08:21:21 PM
It's been a while; seems like it may have been down at the hospital when I forgot to charge the cell.  And as I recall, it did not come cheap.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: xnewyawka on March 06, 2008, 09:38:24 AM
It has been a hell of a long time and I simply can't remember. Has to be over 5 years or more though.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: herronm on March 06, 2008, 11:05:43 AM
I remember the call cost 25 cents (have no idea what they cost now).  It's been at least 5 years.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Adam on March 06, 2008, 09:42:31 PM
1997, I was in a holding cell in the county jail.  It was my one free call.  I actually made a few calls, but they were all collect.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: Tyler on March 10, 2008, 03:00:47 AM
1997, I was in a holding cell in the county jail.  It was my one free call.  I actually made a few calls, but they were all collect.

One of my buddies got a DUI a while back and because of his cell phone, didn't have anyones number memorized.  So, being the out of the box thinker he is, used the pay phone to call a bail bondsman who posted a card above the phone and had her call me at work to come bail him out.  He gave her my name and the name of the company I worked for and she called up the main line and asked for me.  She said she was an old friend of mine and got through.  When I answered she went into the story of how she came to call me and that I needed to come see her to bail my buddy out.  30 minutes later I was in her office.  We still laugh at how he pulled that one off.
Title: Re: WHEN was the last time U used a pay phone??
Post by: skiking on April 14, 2008, 11:45:00 PM
last time i used a pay phone was september.  I was going fishing and i blew out the sidewall of a tire and found a nail in my spare 60 miles from the nearest town and 5 miles from the canadian border.  I hitchhiked to a store a few miles back, called a tow truck and waited for 5 hours for the truck to show up. 

60 miles of dirt road is a long way in a tow truck.