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If you're using a payphone that illustrates the point that you're struggling somehow or you've lost your cell.
I want to cross it to eat pulparindos, horchata and frijoles; to call my mother using a payphone that takes my pesos and has a Spanish-speaking operator; to buy the local gossip magazine.
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I did this myself for three years until an elderly lady, trying to use a payphone that Redford was leashed beneath, stepped on Redford and received a freaked-out bite on the ankle (I went to remedial dog training, and was of course more than happy to pay for her bite wound, which was not bad fortunately).
I saw a guy with one leg using a payphone, I was like 'Eh, that looks about right.'".
Queues for the few remaining telephone boxes in Lancaster were more than 10 deep with some students using a payphone for the first time.
It's full of peculiar rituals, and only now that I am 31, and no one incentivises me to do anything by offering me a special badge, do I recognise how odd some of them were We were given badges for applying bandages to our ungrazed knees, remembering to keep a sewing kit in the pockets of our culottes, and successfully using a payphone to make a call.
"Anybody using a payphone is a shady character.
Possibilities include calling or texting from a number you set up online, borrowing the phone of a friend with a blocked or unlisted number, or using a payphone.
In a payphone that reeked of pee.
How to use a payphone?
The last time I tried to use a payphone it was winter in New York.
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