Did You Ever Answer A Public Pay Phone That Was Ringing?

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I have a couple of times, and it's usually someone who just dialed a wrong number.

 

I have but it was a long time ago (can't even find one of those now!). Of course they asked for someone and no one was around. Can't remember what I said.
 
Being the nosey B that I am, yes I would answer a public phone that was ringing.:sobad:
 
AprilT said:
Yes, eons ago when we had payphones, but, I can't recall what the conversations were. I don't even remember the last time I saw a public payphone.
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We see the beautiful red phone boxes in the countryside. Some have been turned into internet. Some need to be there if you can't get a mobile signal and you have an emergency. There was an outcry when the phone company talked about removing them. The one I posted was on the Isle of Barra.
 
Ameriscot said:
We see the beautiful red phone boxes in the countryside. Some have been turned into internet. Some need to be there if you can't get a mobile signal and you have an emergency. There was an outcry when the phone company talked about removing them. The one I posted was on the Isle of Barra.
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Very cool. It's a great idea. I believe at some of the camping sites, they do still offer some kind of emergency phones at various locations. There may be other phones out there, but, with everyone and their mother having a mobile, less likely to see one. That red booth/box is really nice.
 
AprilT said:
Very cool. It's a great idea. I believe at some of the camping sites, they do still offer some kind of emergency phones at various locations. There may be other phones out there, but, with everyone and their mother having a mobile, less likely to see one. That red booth/box is really nice.
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They are beautiful. Some areas are so rural that you can't get a phone signal.
 
Yes we have red phone boxes here in the village..and they're still in use..




However in the larger town where I work there is a modern pay phone booth right outside, and co-incidentally it was ringing as I walked past it, and I paused, and almost answered it, but then thought..hmmm..no point it won't be for me..and just walked on, but I'm nosey so I wonder who it was...lol
 
Haven't seen a public pay phone in years! ... if I ever did see one, and heard it ringing, I would think it's some kind of trick, like Candid Camera stuff .. :)
 
It is rare to see a public phone box, red or otherwise, in the UK these days, as most people are surgically attached to their mobile phones.
 
I suppose there are always compulsive phone answerers, you know the sort, cannot hear a phone ringing without they have to sprint two hundred yards to answer it.

I can remember a colleague complaining that he was fed up of answering my office phone (in my own office, so it wasn't disturbing anybody) when I was out. When I asked him why he did it he said to let them know I wasn't in.

He was quite put out when I pointed out that if he let it ring they would work that out for themselves!

I would no more think of answering somebody else's phone than I would of opening their mail.
 
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