Sunday, November 21, 2004
(10:32 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Pay Phones
Right now, I'm living with two roommates, splitting the phone bill. Once that is no longer operative, however, I think that my getting a cell phone will be all but inevitable. I was in a situation this weekend where I needed to find a pay phone, and man, it's a lot harder than you'd think. I remember growing up, there were pay phones everywhere. I was continually tripping over them. Every lobby of every restaurant and institution was equipped with one. All you needed was some change, and you were good to go. Now, not so much. You need to find some fucking gas station where you need to pre-pay, or some grocery store where everything's in Spanish, or basically some kind of location where the phone company thinks that it can overcharge some poor people.Jesus probably wouldn't get a cell phone, but I was talking to my mom tonight about the possibility of adopting a Jesus-like lifestyle, and we both agreed it was kind of a dead end. I mean, dead at 33? Everyone would be saying, "He should have just broken down and gotten that cell phone -- so much wasted potential." I hear you can play games on them now, too.
