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Drop a dime... Who remembers the old style phones? They had a coin slot the top and it was cents to make a local . This was more than 40 years before they invented caller ID so it was easy to be in informant to illegal activity and not having the call traced. A call to the Police to let them know of some suspicious activity and hang up . That is where the term "Drop a Dime" came from. phones have become a thing of the past. Hopefully, no one reading my blog has investment in a phone company. I knew of a guy was was on the front technology for phone cards that offered low long distance . Good business lasted a generation and all the competition made rich men poor men if they did not get when everyone and their grandmother was phone cards. Soon after, cellphone plans put the kibosh on calling cards. .   |
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I still see pay phones everywhere I go. Unfortunately, if I didn't have a cellphone, it would be a long walk to find a pay phone that actually worked!
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To clarify my statement, while I do see pay phones everywhere they are not in working condition.
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