When I was a teen, I constantly used to call my parents from a payphone and ask them to pick me up. I can't remember the last time I used a coin-operated payphone, though. In the last ten years, I have used payphones perhaps five or six times in all, and always with a credit card.
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"If you're using half your concentration to look normal, then you're only half paying attention to whatever else you're doing." - Magneto in "X-Men: First Class"