re: Let's reminisce on the ole pay phone.

Those were great for making crank calls.

Wish they were still around so I could call scammers and waste their time without them knowing my real number.

I lived in a an area where 3 different calling areas intersected, and 2 of them were long distance from my house. Also my job was long distance from my house. There was one payphone about a mile away, that I could use to make calls, that saved me from long distance charges. It was located on the outside wall, at a BBQ joint that was pretty good.
Coming home from work one Saturday, just in time to stop for some food before a ball game came on TV, I walked out of the BBQ joint and made a quick call on that phone, then got in my car and went home.
I'm sitting watching the ballgame, and eating my food, when my phone rings and it's a girl, and she asks "is this^********? Me," yes it is" She- Have you lost a wallet? Me- nope. she- rattles off my birthday ssn and drivers license #
I look around and feel of my pocket and realize that I don't have it, and say yeah, I guess I did lose it. She asks how much money I had and I give her a close estimate. She tells me that she has my wallet and all the money is in it and I can come by her house and pick it up. I had left it on top of that payphone.
I go to her house later that night to pick it up, and she is really good looking, and we hit it off and we went out right then.

That was the first woman I ever divorced.

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Brought back tons of memories in my youth. Sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night so I could ride my bike 2 miles to the nearest pay phone to call my girl friend

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The hell? Your parents kept the house phone under lock and key?

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She liked what she saw in that wallet. Smooth move.

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She told me later, that if I had been homely, she would have kept my damn wallet.

I actually still use that same wallet, it's been a really good one, but I think it's time to get a new one. Are they still tree fiddy?

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So in that gif he hits him with the phone and I assume shoots him while hes on the ground?

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Gary is pretending to be on the pay phone. When pedophile walks by, gunshot to the head at point blank range. That gif is the actual shooting. One shot, one kill saving taxpayers millions.

Can you imagine, if you had the capabilities back then, to set up a hidden camera and mic outside of a payphone? Say someplace like Las Vegas? The drama that could have been captured...

The days where pay phones and cell phones overlapped allowed for "poo phoning".

My friends and I in high school once "poo phoned" a loud, trashy woman at Citiplace theater in Baton Rouge.

For those who don't know what "poo phoning" is, it is where you rub dog shite on the ear and mouth pieces of a pay phone, then wait in your car across the parking lot for someone to walk past, and call the pay phone repeatedly until they answer and press the poo phone against their face.

When they answer you yell "YOU'VE BEEN POO PHONED!" and they start to realize what happened and freak the frick out. This particular woman started screaming and rolled around on the ground as if she had been shot. Threw her purse against the wall in a very dramatic display.