• Davel23@fedia.io
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    21 hours ago

    There was a bank of five or six payphones in the common area at my high school. Someone found out there was a number you could call which, after you hung up would immediately generate a callback to the phone it was called from. It was not uncommon to have all the phones ringing constantly.

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      18 hours ago

      My high school only had one pay phone. It had a bad connection in the hand set, so sound cut in and out constantly. People rarely ever bothered making calls on it. The coin return also had some sort of obstruction inside it. If you inserted a quarter and then hit the coin return lever, you’d hear it fall, but it didn’t actually come out. When enough quarters built up though, they would all flood out into return tray at once. Naturally, it got used as a slot machine. Drop in a quarter, pull the tiny lever, and see if you hit the jackpot.

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      20 hours ago

      We had a deaf school in our high school, so one of the payphones had a keyboard and an operator would read your messages to the other party. My friend used to use it to call his friend and see how many dirty words he could get the operator to say.

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      21 hours ago

      I know this would be annoying as heck, but I’m laughing my ass off imagining this.

      I would totally have done this too.

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        20 hours ago

        I used to do this at my school, and sometimes the payphones in the metro. Can confirm, I was annoying.