Payphones

[Silent Whisper]

i was just thinking....payphones suck..i have to call my friend in a few but the pay phone i Fifty cen. now i remember when they were a corter....there making the prices go up like the gas money is...............ITS MADNESS AHHHHHHHHH.

[ladyrowan]

Originally posted by Silent Whisper
.there making the prices go up like the gas money is...............ITS MADNESS AHHHHHHHHH.

By 'gas' do you mean petrol? How much do you pay now?
Ours is around 80 pence a litre, but no idea what that is translated! Anyone know?

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[Dellit Tandannon]

there's a way of cheating pay phones :D

[willowfairy]

really, dellit? and how is that? :) :)

[Semele]

Originally posted by Dellit Tandannon
there's a way of cheating pay phones :D

tsk tsk...shame on you lil mr. Cracker...stop corrupting the good folks!!!:smash:

[Rævyn Cigány]

Originally posted by ladyrowan


By 'gas' do you mean petrol? How much do you pay now?
Ours is around 80 pence a litre, but no idea what that is translated! Anyone know?

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Holy Mother Cerridwen, REALLY????? That translates to like over $1.60 Canadian a litre....sheesh....guess I won't complain when it goes up to 70 cents again, huh???

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Rae )0(

[SpikesPet5150]

Around here it's about $1.50 a gallon (us dollars)... and it's deffinitely not the most expensive! I've seen it at $1.70 too.
~Bree

[Emerald Sky]

Fifty cents for a pay phone??? Wow. I remember when it was twenty cents. We used to put dimes in our penny loafers instead of pennies in case we needed to make an emergency phone call. LOL.

Our gas prices actually went down quite a bit to around 1.50. They were up to 1.85. :eek: :rolleyes: :mad:

[Raynewitch]

Ummmmmmm whats a penny loafer?

In Oz its about 86.9 cents at the moment, but that is likely to increase before the weekend.

:elf:Rayne:elf:

:sunny:

[Amora]

Can't live without it, never leave home without it! Sorry but I can't empathize with the pay phone thing... but the gas... yep, that's eating me up too.

Also I'm really not trying to offend but what happened to the spellcheck option?

[ladyrowan]

Are Canadian and US dollars the same?

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[slvr_phoenix]

I remember gas at one time being over $2.00 a gallon. That royally sucked. So I can live with the $1.50 that I'm paying now. :)

Hmm ... cheating pay phones. **evil grin** Do pay phones still use tones to determine what coin was put in? Or did they finally get smarter?

And I heard a discussion going on about the pay phone prices going up. Appearantly you can blame it on the cell phone owners. Since so many people these days are carrying a phone with them, people hardly ever use pay phones anymore. Since the phone companies aren't about to operate at a loss just for our benefit, it means that they had to increase the cost to cover how much it costs them to keep the pay phones up and running, and maintain them when some unkind person damages one.

So to me, that price increase is fair. It's not like the phone company is a not-for-profit organization after all. ;)

I do remember when pay phones were only 20 cents though. :( Oh how prices have changed across the years.

[slvr_phoenix]

Oh, and Canadian and US dollars aren't the same. (And for that matter, neither is the Australian dollar.) Each government regulates the value of it's own currency. :) I'm sure somewhere on-line there is a currency exchange rate calculator for anyone who wants to keep up with what costs what where. (And I think 1 liter is approx. 1/4th of a gallon, but I could be off on that, it has been years since science classes. Heh heh.)

[ladyrowan]

Originally posted by slvr_phoenix
Oh, and Canadian and US dollars aren't the same. (And for that matter, neither is the Australian dollar.) Each government regulates the value of it's own currency. :) I'm sure somewhere on-line there is a currency exchange rate calculator for anyone who wants to keep up with what costs what where. (And I think 1 liter is approx. 1/4th of a gallon, but I could be off on that, it has been years since science classes. Heh heh.)

A gallon is 8 pints. A litre is more than a pint, but i can't remember how much more, I still work in old money 8O

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[Myst]

Originally posted by Dellit Tandannon
there's a way of cheating pay phones :D

There are many ways. It's called phreaking. And it's illegal :)

[Myst]

Originally posted by Raynewitch
Ummmmmmm whats a penny loafer?


Penny loafers are shoes dear.

Here it's about $0.65 - $0.70 a litre right now, it was up to $0.85 last year and earlier this summer.