When did you last use a payphone....

Mint Sauce

and why?

With most of us now having a mobile phone, some of us having two, the use of pay phones are becoming less and less and are even now starting to disappear due to their cost to run being more than what they are taking in.

So the question is, when and why did you last use one.

Me it was about 5 or 6 years ago atleast, and only becuase the battery on the mobile was dead.

who what when

Ive never ever used one. And im 27.

jubella

About a month ago because my phone's battery was dead. It did feel really weird to use one though.

netnerd

a few weeks ago, as its a hell of a lot cheaper to use a payphone than to pay O2's extortionate roaming charges.

Cookie_Monster

the last time lex luthor was in town :cool:

Dilynnio

On the 21st November 1998....I rang my Mummy to collect me from the pub!!!
It was a cold wet night!

Conor Bourke

Last time I did it was to ring work to tell them I'd be late as I'd thrown a burrito out of my car window, knocking down a motorcyclist. As punishment he kicked my dog over a bridge and the trauma was just too much for me to take.

punchdrunk

about ten years ago,to ring a taxi for paul mcgrath as he was staggering down dame st locked and drivers would stop because of the state he was in

OutlawPete

Last night, mobile is on the blink and needed to check for voicemail as I was in town.

€1 fecking minimum charge :mad:

Scuid Mhór

a couple of years ago, i walked by this payphone and it started ringing. so i picked it up. 'stu shepard?' a deep, american voice intercepted my ear drums.

never again will i go near a payphone.

flyton5

Last weekend. I was dying for a piss...

yeppydeppy

I'd guess sometime in the early ninties, cause my phone battery had died. Since then, why bother use a pay phone? Even the dogs in the streets have mobiles today so I'd just ask to borrow someones for a quick call, if stuck.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Few months ago, phone was broken and I needed a lift. Had to read the instructions though and it still took me about a minute figure out.

pickarooney

A few months ago. I got a flat tyre and rang for a lift.

Sykk

In Australia when I was ringing the ould fella asking him to pay my flights home :pac:

alwaysadub

1996 maybe. I got a mobile around then and don't think i've ever needed a pay phone since.

conorhal

About a month ago in town.... to ring my mobile....that I had drunkenly misplaced.

rugbug86

In London last year. To take a picture of me inside it.

smk89

15 minutes ago, I locked myself out of the house without my phone and called my landlord.
Never felt so special in all my life

phasers

I was in London a couple of years ago and had no money for credit, I rang my Mam collect to ask her to send me some credit

GLaDOS

I can't remember ever using one

Asphyxia

Years ago we used to ring random numbers on it twas so funny

DaMagooster

Alaskimo-cake wrote: »

Last time I did it was to ring work to tell them I'd be late as I'd thrown a burrito out of my car window, knocking down a motorcyclist. As punishment he kicked my dog over a bridge and the trauma was just too much for me to take.

Were you locked in a glass case of emotion at the time?

clawless

Last year as part of an elaborate geocache in town.
Took ages to find it but was worth it for the excitment of finding it in the end!

Conor Bourke

DaMagooster wrote: »

Were you locked in a glass case of emotion at the time?

Yes

Duggy747

Last time I was in a phonebox was about 5 years ago when my mobile's battery died and I needed to make a phone call.

I picked up the handset and there was a big, slimy phlem on the earpiece, courtesy of some scumbag I didn't use it in the end.

Before that was when Eircom was Telecom Éireann................and this website used to be nothing but fields..............as far as the eye could see! :pac:

Gunsfortoys

Glad they are disappearing, I remember if you got straight to a voicemail your 2euro would be gone in a flash. Eircom are feeling Karma to the extreme at the moment.

Tar.Aldarion

In around 2000 to make a prank of course. gf used it to call me when her phone dies, only reason I can think of.

jackiebaron

irish-stew wrote: »

and why?

With most of us now having a mobile phone, some of us having two, the use of pay phones are becoming less and less and are even now starting to disappear due to their cost to run being more than what they are taking in.

So the question is, when and why did you last use one.

Me it was about 5 or 6 years ago atleast, and only becuase the battery on the mobile was dead.

Do you mean to phone somebody or to have a piss/crap/****?

AnonoBoy

who what when wrote: »

Ive never ever used one. And im 27.

What did you do when you needed to call your parents for a lift home when you were 12?

I haven't used one in ages. I did see someone smoking some manner of drugs in one on Abbey Street a while back though.

brummytom

In Dublin Aiport, back in August.


Bloody thing was ridiculously confusing to use, and verrrrry expensive!

PeterIanStaker

Mobile was on the blink had to ring the housemate, soon as I picked up the handset of the payphone, junkie looking like this
http://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/14/26/gollum-chav2.0.0.0x0.337x352.jpeg

materialises beside me,

"stooreeee buuuud have yih chaange forra hostel"

talla10

Never did and im 26!!I used to use the oul callcards they sold years ago!!

citizen_p

never used one

Posy

Last time I used one would be about 2000-2001 or thereabouts, before I had a mobile phone. I wouldn't use one now, they cost a bomb and are dirrrty, ugh.

meglome

Last week for the first time in years. I felt dirty. (more than usual anyway)

bonerm

When : 06/09/2007

Why : Needed someone to pick me up from the airport.

(last time in Ireland was 28/4/2003)

Kimono-Girl

i'd say the last time i used one was back in dickity-two. We had to say dickity, because the Kaiser had stolen our word twenty!