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Originally Posted by Apache
I can't remember the last time I saw a pay phone.
Apache
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I was trying to remember as well. I freely admit I'm biased about the whole thing; when I left corporate America, I was carrying a flip-phone at the time--the newest, latest and greatest (yes, yes, I confess, I had the brick, originally! I was an early adopter, which is bizarre given my resistance to them now....), and stuck with it FAR into the smartphone age. I only relented when my flip died and I didn't really have a choice.
And the problem with everybody and their brother doing EVERYTHING via texting now. Authorizations, medical stuff, refills for medical stuff, appointments...I've nearly given up giving out my "home" number, which is--gasp!--a landline. It's infuriating. They appear not to grasp that some people live in places where cellphones aren't that goddamned reliable. I still get messages sometimes 2 weeks or longer away from when they were left. If one more person says to me, "I texted your number," (again, LANDLINE!), I'll scream. And yes, we tell them in big red letters on forms, etc. "LANDLINE DO NOT TEXT!" It's like talking to a robot particularly designed to annoy you...
Same thing with payphones in remote spots. What, someone could never break down and need a phone? Their smartphone might NOT get crunched in a car crash, or...?
UGH.
Hitch