Pay Phones

A courthouse in Iowa recently learned that the fees they paid to have a payphone available, based on the 11 times in one year the phone was actually used, cost them $69 per phone call instead of bringing in money.

Pay phones are definitely on the way out.  The reporters were discussing if they could remember when the last time they used a payphone was.  Not only could they not remember, but also I could not remember.  Then I thought if I had even seen someone using a payphone recently.

Interestingly enough, these thoughts caused me to realize that every time I have seen someone using a payphone recently, I have become suspicious of their character.  Who are these people who must use a phone that is less easy to trace?  Why don't they have a cell phone?  And why are they at this creepy gas station or standing on the corner?  What kind of shenanigans are they involved with?  I then guard my purse with extra caution.  How ironic that something that was once so normal is now indicative of a someone of whom to be leery.