Title: Public pay phones -- When is the last time you used one or even saw one? Source:
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They are located in mass transportation centers all over the USA & Europe. Often, in Europe, there are special locations such as the postoffice that also facilitates the use of publick telephones.
To answer your question, they are on their way out with modern cellular technology.
When I started policing in 1994, there were 11 pay phones in my county within 508 square miles. I know this because my training sergeant would test me and give me a time limit to drive to all of them (when the calls died down) as a way of me knowing my surroundings if my patrol car or portable radio should take a shit. We always prepared for the worst. Anyhow, the point is, by 2000, there was only two left. By 2004, none. I was even tested on knowing their phone numbers (at all times) and what ones you could actually call into. Only a few of them accepted incoming calls.
Needless to say, I kept much info written in my pocket notebook as a means for officer safety.
Needless to say, I kept much info written in my pocket notebook as a means for officer safety.
How did you have room left over on the loose leaf pages of the tiny notebook? Didn't you have every donut shop listed with contact data of the respective managers of the shops so you could radio ahead to get your free chocolate eklair with a kup o' koffee?
There was only two "donut" shops in my jurisdiction. We stayed clear of them (most of us). Too many assholes like you give them a stigma towards officers. I'd pull into a Sunoco gas station 3 times a shift and fill up a 24 ounce coffee, black and without sugar. Dark roast... no donut.
Now, all this new information flooded within your above post has entirely changed my perspective of and about you. Did you radio ahead to the gas station personel that you were crashing their establishment for a kup o' koffee?
