When was the last time you used a pay phone (phone box) ?

[Gullys Cats]

I haven't used one for years, phone boxes are history!, so when was the last time you was in a phone box? (Smoking crack, having sex or taking a piss doesn't count or having a shit)

 

[Eksman]

About 10 years ago..

I see now in upper beeding they have turned the phone boxes into defibrillators, great idea especially when the average age there is 92

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

During New Years about 10 years ago when I couldn't get any reception and needed to call a friend.

 

[Baldseagull]

6 months ago when my mobile died.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I used to use them regularly, to close out the noise of the street, so I could hear what was being said on my mobile.

 

[pasty]

Can't actually remember

 

[footychick]

I can't remember either, must have been years ago.

 

[grawhite]

About 25 years or more ago.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Not an actual phone box but I used the public phones in Airport before. Don't think I've ever used a phone box in my life..

 

[algie]

I detest using them. Maybe it's just me but i find phone boxes totally unhygienic. I feel dirty going in.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I think I had an urgent tinkle in one one late August night. Otherwise in London I just see them as adverts for run-over dead teenager warnings. I quite fancy the deceased Asian girl.

 

[withdeanwombat]

There are hardly any to be seen anymore. These days people just hold their hands up to their ears and shout in the street.

Some of them are using mobile telephones, a gimmick that will never catch on.

 

[severnside gull]

1998 when my car broke down in Porthcawl.
I went out and purchased my first mobile phone the following day.

 

[Badger]

In this country it must be at least 10 years. It was probably the last time I asked my parents to pick me up from the station before I got a mobile phone, which would have been about 14 years ago.

I've used them abroad a few times though.

 

[Easy 10]

I only use them for drug deals these days.

 

[Cian]

About seven years ago or so when my mobile battery died. Had to phone someone at home to find my mobile bill, figure someone's number out from it and then remember it for long enough to ring them.

They've taken away nearly all of them in my town anyway, there's a few in shopping centres (even the new shopping centre weirdly) and two outside the police station which must be for people who like a bit of added danger to their drug deals.

 

[Puppet Master]

Didn't know they even still existed

 

[Albumen]

I've never actually been in one that stank of piss. I'll miss the distinctive smell.

 

[Muzzy]

To get one of those little cards that you sometimes see in there. To make a call... Nope, can't remember!

 

[Norman Potting]

Honestly can't remember. If you are eating don't read on!



Coming back from an Albion game many moons ago and for some reason needed to make a call to someone (probably running late). Pulled up at the box on the 272 near Chailey cross roads to use phone, everywhere in darkness including phone box.

After several unsuccessful attempt to dial in darkness, ending in me dropping all my change on the floor, I returned to the car and got a torch. On returning to the kiosk with torch I discovered why the handset had seemed damp and sticky - someone had recently used it as a phone of the "great white china phone to Heaven" variety!