Drop a dime...
I remember the old style pay phones and maybe you do too.They had a coin slot at the top and it was ten cents to make a local call.
This was more than 40 years before they invented caller ID.
Doing so, made it easy to be in informant of illegal activity and not having the call traced.
A simple call to the Police to let them know of some suspicious activity and hang up.
That's where the term 'Drop a Dime' came from.
Pay phones have become a thing of the past.
Hopefully, no one reading my blog has money in a pay phone company.
I knew of a guy was was on the front technology for phone cards that offered low cost long distance service. That lasted a generation and all the competition made rich men poor men if they didn't get out when 'everyone and their grandmother' was selling phone cards.
Soon after, low price cellphone plans put the 'kibosh' on calling cards.
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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I'd love to hand the phone to someone walking by
and tell them "Here. Your mom says she misplaced your cell number".
For those of us who don't have a cellphone grafted on, it is possible to forget them. And even for those who always have them, cellphones do break.
Back then there was a thing called "blind date."
Now, people don'f want to talk to you unless they have a picture of you.