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Did anyone else grow up being told that people would put used needles in there? AIDS panic was wild.
“What’s a quarter, grandpa?”
I was told you get two bees for a quarter.
7 grams for the metric folks out there
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!”
I never knew that joy either. It was zilch every time.
Or a loogie
There’s so many coin operated machines in Asia this feeling should totally still exist.
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,
