When was the last time you used a pay phone?

wow... i had to stop and think for a moment the last time i used a payphone. it was so long ago. long before i had a cellfone. if my memory serves me right, the last time i used a local pay phone in my country was july 1998. i had to make a long distance call to my brother for my trip in his city in august of that year. i didnt have a cellfone back then and i was in the mall so i decided to use a pay phone inside the mall. the last time i used a pay phone technically, it was when i made my first trip to jakarta indonesia in july 2001. my travel was advanced and i just went ahead a day earlier than my actual flight after checking that the plane had available seats that day. as a chance passenger, nobody at home knew for sure if i made it or not to the plane. and nobody in indonesia knew for sure i was in the flight. hahaha. so upon the required stop-over in singapore, i went out to buy a pay phone card and call my sister in indonesia to tell her i was coming. i already have a cellfone at the time but i think there was no international roaming services yet for my mobile network.:) nowadays, at least here in my country, more and more people tend to use mobilephones than landlines, more so on payphones. i rely now mostly on my mobile phone and hasn't touched a payphone in years. especially as a traveling person, cellphones have been an important part of my daily routine both at work and personal life. :)

I sure do. I used one just last week. THat's what they are for :) ANd I hope that they will not disappear although the way things are going it might seem that they will. Not everyone has or uses cell phones. It's just one more monthly expense that is not necessarily the best choice to everyone. Of course in this age of high consumerism it might seem like everyone should have one. Hey anything that gets you to spend money on a contract for a certain number of years. I like public phones. I used them when I need them and I"m glad they're there. Most calls don't need to be done from the street, most can wait until one gets home - I mean, there's no need to be having a long conversation with a friend in the bus, just because we happen to have a cell phone, or book an appointment to the hair dresser, or get the latest gossip on the niece of the man the works in that store that closed a year ago because his wife had an operation and the medication was........ should I continue? Cell phones created the need for calls that are not needed. And we fall for it. If the call is really something that is needed - I need instructions to get to a certain place, I need to know if my husband already left home to pick me up, I"m late for my appointment and want the doctor's office to know that then I can always find a public phone and use it. Sure I'll pay 50 cents for it. If I pay 50 cents for even 10 calls trough out the month then I spent 10 dollars in that month, not 40 or 50 that I have to pay even when I don't really need to make any call. Sure a cell is convenient, but for me.. way to convenient. I hope that public phones are still available for many years.

Do you know.. I really can't remember! It's been so long, I expect they've changed the procedure by now and I wouldn't know where to start. I think my last time must have been when I lived in Brighton and I've been away from there for sixteen years, in June. lol. I hate them anyway... nine times out of ten they've either been broken into or they don't work for some unearthly reason. Brightest Blessings.

I used one a few weeks ago - our long distance carrier comes with a code I can punch in for the exact same rate I pay if making the call at home 4.9 cents per minute. a quarter? how nice, I was surprised to see ours was 75 cents! outrageous.... I can remember mom telling me to make sure I had a dime on me in case I needed to call home... was it really that many years ago?

Lol, I cannot remember! When I was a kid, perhaps? Nowadays, most of us have mobile phones so there isn't really a need for a pay phone except emergencies.

I remember when I needed to find a pay phone because I forgot my phone at home and I couldn't find a booth that actually had a phone in it to save my life. I think I have seen a few in resturants still, but it is a dying thing to see a pay phone and when you do they are like 50 cents now. I never leave my phone at home anymore.

It has been a very long time since I used a cell phone. My phone was down and I needed to get a hold of a person very badly so I walked done and used the pay phone down the street. But since I have a cell phone I don't need to use a pay phone any longer. I am happy about that.

there's some four plexs near me ( like under a mile) that has a pay phone near the interesction of the 2 streets Its because the people in them are so poor that they often don't have either landlines or cell phones. These fourplexs used to have regular trash pickup but the city seems to have decided that they should really be considered like an apartment complex - maybe they are owned/leased by the same group - and have now got big trash dumpsters.

I am definitely a cell phone person! The last time I used a pay phone was back when my husband was in the hospital and needed surgery on his leg. That was about 15 years ago. Wow, has it really been that long? LOL Anyway I had to call his parents to let them know how he was doing so I kept in touch with them with the use of one of the pay phones that was inside of the hospital as I didn't have a cell phone back then, nor did he have a phone in his hospital room.

Last month I used the pay phone when i forgot my cell at my office. I had to call up my parents, so used pay phone that day. My old memories lingered on those days when I frequently used the pay phone. :)

most likely 4 to 5 years ago, before i ever got a cellphone~

The last time I used a payphone was about four years ago when I took my son far away for surgery. We weren't supposed to use our phones in the hospital but I didn't want to go outside to phone home so I used the payphone.

The last time i used a pay phone was back in oct 2006.i used to have tutions and i used to call my friends through payphone.now i have a mobile and i don't even use a payphone.

Ever since I got a cellphone I rarely use a pay phone. The last time I used a payphone was maybe 2 or 3 years ago, I do not remember why I used it though.

I used a pay phone about nine months ago outside a Walmart store. I didn't have a cell phone with me so had to resort to the old fashioned way. I'm pretty good with technical stuff, but I had a hard time with that darn phone. Thought I'd followed the directions right, but took me about three tries to get a call going - putting the money in at the right time, waiting the right time, dialing at the right time - being told it was long distance although it was two miles away. I ended up going 1-800-collect or something like that. I've seen pay phones that have no workings inside the booth lately and am wondering if they were never installed or just taken out. I imagine there are government regulations about access to telephones in some public places? I'll take my cell phone any day for convenience and ease of use. Even if you carry one just for emergencies, it would be worth it. whit

Its been a couple of years since I've used a payphone. Now I have a cellphone. But your right they are disappearing fast.

I last used one about 2 years ago at Big Bend National Park. There was no cell service in the park and that was the only option for calling home and checking in with family. (otherwise when we're on road trips they panic if they don't hear from us every couple of days. I really do think pay phones will be pretty much non existent in a couple of years.

Hi whywiki.. When I read the question, I paused and think for a while. It seems a long time ago since the last time I used a pay phone. If I remember it right, the last time I used a payphone was almost a year ago. Its when I run out of battery and my boyfriend was about to fetch me supposedly in my previous workplace. Almost everyone went home so I decided to go to the nearest mall which was 10 minutes walk from our office and to buy some grocery while waiting for him. I was in the mall when I decided to send an sms to my boyfriend to tell him I was in the mall already and we will just meet in the grocery section. Darn! My phone was battery empty thus I hurriedly looked for a payphone to call him. Though Im a cell type of person, there are some cases that I might badly need a payphone. I do hope phone companies would not totally take out pay phones.