Payphones were the first casualty of the great mobile boom of the past 10 years. As recently as 1994, every single commercial break contained Carrot Top using the "Head-On" school of advertising to convince you to dial down the middle, and use 1-800-CALL-ATT whenever you didn't have a quarter.
Because they're presumably a pain in the ass to remove, payphones are still out there. Occasionally, you'll even see someone using a payphone. When this happens, you can immediately assume one or more of the following things about them:
5. They are tourists from a foreign country or the year 1987. (3%)
4. They are paranoid enough to brag about "staying off the grid," yet not paranoid enough to realize that with a total of five payphone conversations taking place at any given time, the FBI could easily monitor them all. (4%)
3. They are looking for a vintage 1994 case of the flu to go with their vintage sneakers. (10%)
2. They like to think of themselves as non-conformists, the less ego-deflating way of saying "unemployed." (13%)
1. They are urinating. (70%)
From cracked.com (which has a great flowchart to go with this story...)
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It's crazy, when my brother in law visits from Japan he uses payphones. NYC payphones... Yuk.
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