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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    Quote Originally Posted by Miller View Post
    I still sometimes use them to send texts when I'm out of credit...
    How do you send a text through a payphone?

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    Quote Originally Posted by Miller View Post
    I still sometimes use them to send texts when I'm out of credit...
    You can send texts on a payphone?

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    I googled and found that there are indeed payphones with text message capabilities... Never seen one myself.

    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2031/...d43fd09c48.jpg

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    I haven't seen a payphone for years

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    I use the payphone to call my family to pick me up at the train station every time I come to visit [thumbup]

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    I used one for half an hour yesterday, and it was a experience! The call actually felt private in the phonebox compared to my mobile, and the sound quality was much better than a mobile. I didnt need to worry that the mobile battery would go flat, or run out of credit!

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    Occasionally. I don't like carrying a mobile (although sometime I have to) everywhere I go I see or hear people waffling on the phone or texting pointlessly, just can't stand it, it is just so vulgar and often downright rude.

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    Our major provider of pay phones removed most of them a few years ago so pay phones are few and far between these days and of the ones that do exist half don't work or just take your money. I had to use one a couple of weeks ago when my phone was on the fritz ended up having to walk quite a way to get one that worked.

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    I used one today!

    The battery in my cell phone was empty, and I couldnt make it in time to a work appointment. I saw a payphone, stopped, and told the guys I will be late. Good thing I had the number on paper. I felt like a guy from those 70's movies with a brown leather jacket and a stupid hat hehe.

    God bless the payphones!
    Last edited by Streifenkarl; 10-13-2009 at 02:51 PM.

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    Re: Payphones - Do you ever use them?

    After last night I feel the need to come in and say that payphones are amazing!

    I was out last night and during the course of the night my phone died, then when the night came to an end I caught the last train to go home, however I fell asleep and woke up at the end of the line about 20 miles away from home at 2am with the next train not being for 4 hours and no one being around.

    Luckily I saw a payphone and was able to phone home, even more luckily, someone picked up and they were able to give me a lift....

    I won't be living this one down for a while! [rofl]

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