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C'mon we should brainstorm this.

For nostalgia purposes. It seems a waste to have perfectly good phone booths everywhere with nobody ever using them.

Edit: example: a lot of people don't know that Telstra phone booths will take incoming calls. You can call one phone booth from another phone booth for example. Could be an interesting way to organise some kind of ... alternate reality game.

C'mon we should brainstorm this. For nostalgia purposes. It seems a waste to have perfectly good phone booths everywhere with nobody ever using them. Edit: example: a lot of people don't know that Telstra phone booths will take incoming calls. You can call one phone booth from another phone booth for example. Could be an interesting way to organise some kind of ... alternate reality game.

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You must not have 40 million illegals and a large black demographic. I bet we would still have phone booths otherwise.

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In Australia when we fill up with petrol (gas) we just start pumping into our car. Then we go into the store and pay for it.

In US you have to first go into the store and prepay for petrol (gas), then fill up your car and then go back into store to fix up the difference.

Why is there a difference?

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Varies from place to place. In nicer places you pump and pay. In other areas it's as you describe.

Though mostly you pay at the pump. And then pay again inside if you want something else.

But yes, the difference is the demographics.

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Call yourself and note the number. Would be better if there was a list of all of them. Then call the pay phones and tell randos who answer some red pills.

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Apparently a few years ago stalkers were texting their exes from payphones with no way for their exes to know where the call was coming from, so now when you text someone from a payphone the phone number of the payphone is also texted to the recipient. Not sure about voice calls, might show up as private number.

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I heard the number shows up when you are called, it's not private. That's probably why. I didn't know you could text from a payphone though!

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You can send SMSs but the experience is a bit dated since the phones are all probably from the early 2000s. It's much like sending a text on an old Nokia phone.

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pin pointing where you are

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I thought that's what mobile phones were for.