If you walked past a public phone box and it was ringing, would you answer it?

If somebody is calling a phone booth, they obviously have the wrong phone number, or it's a crank call.
If you stopped and told the caller, they had the wrong number, you know you wouldn't get more than 5 steps away from the phone, when it would start ringing again. Humans !!!!!!
 
timoc said:
Me walking past a public phone that is ringing...... picking it up....

"Hello, who's that speaking?"

Person at the other end of the line....
"It's Mick."

Me.......
"Oh hiya, Mick, how are you doing?"

Mick.....
"I'm fine, who are you?"

Me....
"It's me, Tim."

Mick.....
"Tim, can I speak to Mary at number 37?"

Me....
"You can, Mick, but you'll have to shout really loud, she lives at the other end of the street."

Mick....
"Well can you nip along there and give her a message?"

Me.....
"Well I'd like to, Mick, but it's pouring with rain."

Mick.....
"Well, why the hell did you pick up the phone, Tim?"

Me....
"I just happened to be in the phone-box sheltering from the rain."

Mick....
"Will you please put the phone down and stop wasting my time?"

Me....
"You ungrateful sod, no wonder Mary wasn't here to take your call."



You really do come into contact with some strange people on public phones.
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Continued.........


7 days later, again I'm passing the phone box and the phone is ringing...... I pick it up....


"Hello, who's speaking?"

Person at the other end.....
"Its Mick."

Me......
"Oh hi, Mick, are you wanting to talk to Mary?"

Mick.....
"Yes I am, is she there, and who are you?"

Me.....
"I'm Bob Hope, and Mary has left a message by the phone for you, Mick."

Mick....
Hi Bob, would you mind reading out the message for me?"

Me....
"Hi Mick, it reads", "Hello Mickey, Mickey, Moosee, I'll see you at the Rose and Crown across town at 7pm tonight."

Mick....
"Thanks Bob, I'll buy you a pint sometime."

Me.....
"Mick, leave a pint for me behind the bar with, Bing, at the Rose and Crown, see ya."

I put the phone down.


Mick will be a bit annoyed when they tell him at the Rose and Crown that Mary went to live near Birmingham last week.







 
MarkinPhx said:
If I happened to walk by one (haven't seen one in years) and it was ringing I would let it ring. No one remembers the movie Phone Booth ? :)

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You beat me to it, Mark: I was gonna say "Nope, I wouldn't answer it! That's how a lot of scary movies start!" Or how they used to back in the old days; now it's people getting scary texts, lol.
 
True story here. Back in the 70's I was in a grocery store and was going to use the pay phone, which was on the outside wall of the office. Just as I was about to pick up the receiver, it rang. So I said "Hello". The voice said, "Is that the way you answer a company business phone". I said "I never answered one before". He said as such, "Ok smart mouth, you won't have a job tomorrow". I said such, "I don't even work here, I was about to the use the phone and it rang" and hung up. It rang again and an office person answered it right away after hearing my conversation. I listened. After, she said the supervisor thought I was an office employee.
 
It will never happen in Canada as the last public phone in the country was decommissioned in 2022; it was located in Cranbrook B.C.
The total revnue that phone generated in it's last year of operation was less than $20.00
 
Nope, I have watched too many murder mysteries or conspiracy tv series whereby an innocent person answered the call box phone and then was involved in having dangerous information and would be killed for knowing.šŸ¤£
 

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