Did anyone else grow up being told that people would put used needles in there? AIDS panic was wild.
“What’s a quarter, grandpa?”
7 grams for the metric folks out there
I was told you get two bees for a quarter.
Two eighths
Half of a half
When I was like 10, I put a dime into a payphone to call a friend but it was busy or something, and when I hung up a quarter fell into the coin return. So of course I did it again and it worked again. I did it once more time, and it worked, but I was afraid I was breaking a law so I didn’t try it anymore. Instead I went to the liquor store down the street and bought candy with my ill-gotten wealth.
Thank goodness for the statute of limitations, man.
I keep my curtains closed just in case
Omg something similar happened to me once. I kept pressing the hang up thing and quarters kept common out. I was also scared of getting in trouble so I stopped but I’ll always wonder how much more i could’ve gotten.
It’s so funny. My net was 75 cents, and I was so afraid I was going to get in big trouble. It went from “Neat! I got a quarter!” to “Oh shit! I’m stealing!”
There’s so many coin operated machines in Asia this feeling should totally still exist.
Or a loogie
I never knew that joy either. It was zilch every time.
And they’ll never know the joy of ass quarters
When did payphones take quarters?
Calls were a dime, like, forever.
Same with a cup of coffee.
Payphones were a quarter for only a very brief period of time before they disappeared.
This is like having nostalgia about a car phone–extremely specific.
I’m 42 and it was a dime for a very short time for me. Then it was a quarter. Actually I think there was a very brief time it was 15 cents.
Born in the late 80s I mostly remember $.25 and eventually $.35. although I saw a few pushing $.50. I loved going to the airport between the payphone carousels and the cart return I generally made
$103 packs of pokemon cards a visit,
