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The reason i asked this is because yesterday i ventured into one of them,before that it was 1996.
Why are they still around ?
Why are they still around ?
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Ive got no mobile..........use em if there working
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Just to phone the family, the ones outside the khazis in Bowness-On-Windermere, spring 2007
Other than that, probably about 1980 |
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a few months ago.
had to make 2 very brief [30seconds tops] reverse charge calls - £18  |
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last time i poked the local sl ut
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about 2002
although i only make around 1 call a week on my own phone phones are a girls thing imo |
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Same time as the bhoys.
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eh?
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1970 I was doing the same as the bhoys abt 1 am & the phone rang...................she looked at me and said "are you going to answer it"....................I replied............It might be your mother!
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When I used to tap the numbers to receive free calls in the old 60's boxes with A and B buttons in them.
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same as kenny...............+ the blocked Button B
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mange wat was ur local sl ut like?
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I use them to make mobile calls from
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Like walking into a warm room
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brutal like most |
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I thought those red boxes were public toilets
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So its YOU is it ?...............you dirty pig
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Ours is now a book exchange for the village to use like a small library.
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Ours used to be full of postcards..........
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December 25, 2007 for me.
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Probably about the same time I put my hand in someone else's spittle...or was that in the lift at the local high rise flats?
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Back in the pre-mobile days I don't remember getting off a plane and there being a mad dash to the public call boxes to see if there were any messages left back at the office.
Nowadays, the wheels have barely touched the tarmac and people are panic turning on their mobiles in case they've missed something life threatening during the past 90 minutes. |
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As a kid there was one opposite my parents house. We used to put shoe polish on the receiver then go back home and ring the number as people passed by and watch them answer it. Innocent fun.
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Probably over ten years ago for me, when I almost stopped to use one, but managed to hold on
till I got home! |