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  • Payphones and rides (was:Re: Lost and found)

    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to GEORGE POPE on Thu Dec 2 05:52:06 2021
    CP wrote --

    The Telco here has a policy of leaving the payphones, until they break

    I can't recall the last time I saw a pay phone. Of course I don't go
    around looking for one.
    I have a seen a lot of places they were, but gone.

    Natch, as a youngster, if I could get a ride to go 5 miles, i'd take it.

    If someone is going that way I'll take a ride.
    One time a party I had taken a Lyft, since raining, and a neighbour who
    lived a few blocks away was there and asked if I could get a ride home since going past my place. They did.
    But I would never ask someone "drive me somewhere".

    Ahh, the '70s in the exurbs. . . *aah*

    Then came population growth & the '80s. . . *sigh*

    I wouldn't mind going back to the '80s in a heart beat. The '70s up to
    the mid '80s were good times for me. And before the world started having a collective mental breakdown.
    Joe
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  • From George Pope@1:153/757.2 to JOE MACKEY on Fri Dec 3 11:30:57 2021
    I can't recall the last time I saw a pay phone. Of course I don't go around looking for one.
    I have a seen a lot of places they were, but gone.

    Same. People are often asking, "Where can I find a payphone?" & I got nothing, except in places too far away to walk, so I'll usually let them use my mobile, as I have unlimited calling/data. . .

    Natch, as a youngster, if I could get a ride to go 5 miles, i'd take it.

    If someone is going that way I'll take a ride.
    One time a party I had taken a Lyft, since raining, and a neighbour who lived a few blocks away was there and asked if I could get a ride home since going past my place. They did.
    But I would never ask someone "drive me somewhere".

    I didn't either, but I would get, especially in therain, offered rides a lot, & if it seemed more confortable, I'd take it!

    About 8, a mate taught me about hitchhiking, & I used that a lot up to & throughout my teens (covered far more ground than I could've by walkng -- no way was I going to walk 2,000+ miles in a go!

    I wouldn't mind going back to the '80s in a heart beat. The '70s up to the mid '80s were good times for me. And before the world started having a collective mental breakdown.


    Likewise; the '70s were a serene time for me, as viewing from my status now as an older adult; they sucked as a kid cuz I got bullied throughout, but if I could put this mind into my childhood body, I'd end the bullying immediately, & enjoy the chance to do things much differently. . . then I'd probably have turned into one of the spoiled pukes running things now! So maybe I'll just stay me & when I am. :)

    Your friend,

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