The Knight Life by Keith Knight for October 19, 2023
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KK: I would always check the change slots of payphone when I was a kid!!
More often than not, Id find a dime or a few nickels maybe even some quarters!!
Ive never felt comfortable with that by the way...
Maybe it depends on where you live. I looked when I was a kid and never found a nickel. I think nobody in my part of the world (small-town Western Massachusetts) ever walked away from a phone booth leaving money in it. Of course in those days a nickel was worth something — you could buy a candy bar with it.
i have always believed that the change i found in the phones was left from a 911 call, the phone company would refund the coins because 911 call were to be free, the caller doesn’t realize it and leaves the coins in the return … so if you lived in an area that didn’t need to make a lot of 911 calls you would find more phone booths with coins.
salakfarm Premium Member 12 months ago
Keef’s some sorta deviated prevert, like the one Keenan Wynn accused Peter Sellers of being in Dr Strangelove. >
3hourtour Premium Member 12 months ago
…how things change…
Mugens Premium Member 12 months ago
Yep, I remember those days myself. In fact I remember a character doing that in a vey old Looney Tunes cartoon.
Nighthawks Premium Member 12 months ago
Ratso did that rather offhandedly in ‘Midnight Cowboy’
Ken Norris Premium Member 12 months ago
Are any pay phones still around, or have they all stopped being usable?
The Brooklyn Accent Premium Member 12 months ago
I seem to recall Maynard G. Krebs doing so occasionally in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
ChukLitl Premium Member 12 months ago
Pay phones, cigarette machines… always check for spare change.
ChazNCenTex 12 months ago
I learned that from watching “Midnight Cowboy”.
CougarAllen 12 months ago
Maybe it depends on where you live. I looked when I was a kid and never found a nickel. I think nobody in my part of the world (small-town Western Massachusetts) ever walked away from a phone booth leaving money in it. Of course in those days a nickel was worth something — you could buy a candy bar with it.
chireef 12 months ago
i have always believed that the change i found in the phones was left from a 911 call, the phone company would refund the coins because 911 call were to be free, the caller doesn’t realize it and leaves the coins in the return … so if you lived in an area that didn’t need to make a lot of 911 calls you would find more phone booths with coins.