General Chat

.....and then, out of boredom I suppose, we used to play the "let's see how many of us can fit into the phone box" thing :-( how sad.
Makes me wonder why on earth I spent so much of my early teenage years hanging around the local phone box, it must have been like some sort of giant magnet in the village. Mind you, we didn't vandalise it. We just wished someone would phone us!

:-D :-D :-D

Nothing like a crunchy nugget Allan LOL :-D ;-)

lol Mersey, the damp makes 'em soggy, and too bendy to dip :-D

Compos right....nowt like damp nuggets when you want to dip them lol ;-)

LOL can just picture compo saying

theres nowt worse than damp nuggets!! ;-)

Allan there was method in me madness ....I didnt want me nuggets to get damp pmsl :-D ;-)

As Sue said, we don't seem to see any phone boxes here in Australia, any more, although there are public phones in shopping complexes - places which have security - because that's the reason why the phone boxes have been removed - they were unusable because they were vandalised. In an emergency, it became much easier to find a passer-by with a mobile phone that it was to find a public phone which worked!
A sign of the times.

lol Mersy :-D

I hope that you weren't the couple sharing my phonebox when I was changing into my Superman alter ego. I thought it was rather crowded :-D :-D

Last time I used a phonebox it wasnt for making calls it was to have a snog out of the rain lol :-D :-D :-D <3

Not surprised Telefonica made all that money Malcolm.
When I lived in Spain in 1990s we waited over a year to get telephone installed so had to use telephone box to ring home.Constantly topping up with 100 peseta coins.
OH went mad when I was calling my mother....cost a fortune...never used one since then!

Whilst you lot were busy tapping out numbers on the handset there were others (allegedly, I don't know who) picking up the handset and dialling 0 for the operator...

"Operator, which number do you require".
"Oh hello, is that the Operator?"
"Yes"
amid hoots of laughter and childish sniggering..."Well you'd better get off the line, there's a train coming".

There must have been three of us Merlin :-D :-D

Were you both in the same phone box then? :-D :-D

I didn't do that either Bob :-0 ;-)

Big difference to the old ones when you could Press button B and get your money back. :-S

last time I used a phone box was when you could get through by tapping out the number on the handset rest

not me, I might add

When I worked with Telefonica one of the managers told me that in the 1980's they had a bunch of public phones in Palma Mallorca which took over a million pesetas (about 5000 pounds) every day in summer. They had a full time man on the site to empty the cash boxes hourly.

With the advent of mobiles Telefonica have reduced the phones in each booth from two to one. You rarely see anyone using them.

Do they still have button A and button B ?!! :-D :-D

Allan!!! :-D

Last time I used one was 2 years ago at Southampton Airport.
I was coming back from Faro, plane (the only plane - easyjet) was delayed due to a fault.

We arrived 4 hours late - at midnight.
No trains or buses running to Winchester, and I couldn't get a signal on my mobile!!
I phoned a friend to pick me up - cost me about £3