Remember when? Delinquent edition!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

You could make a pay phone call with a penny!😏

[dchill]

1. That WAS delinquent!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. My remorse remains with me to this day! 😢

[Motley13]

2. I remember a nickle, it had a hole & a string tied to it, so we could pull it out & use over & over

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Delinquent!

[lapfog_1]

5. swear to god...

when my family moved to a rural farm in Kansas when I was a very small child... we had a party line.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. And you listened in didnt you?

Delinquent!

[Motley13]

7. I remember that too, 2 party or 4 party. There were no secrets

[lapfog_1]

9. Our phone looked like this

and it would generate the number clicks if you "dialed" it.

But there was no "dial tone", you just picked it up and if no one was talking you said "I'd like to dial Melrose 2876 please" or something like that.

Less than a year or so later our line was attached to the new automated switch that Southwestern Bell installed.

[Yonnie3]

8. The old pay phone had a bell that chimed for every five cents inserted.

The operator counted the dings to know what was inserted. A little bell could fool them. Yes delinquent.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Delinquent!

[Iggo]

11. There was this one phone over by the Market Basket.

You could could just hang up the phone about medium-hard...not slam it, but just hang up with a little force...and every time you did it, a few coins would drop into the coin return.

You do that for an hour, you could get a pretty good chunk of change.

We worked that thing for about a week before old Ma Bell caught on.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Wow!

Er, I mean delinquent!

[Iggo]

13. I am properly chastised.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. I should hope so! 😏