Happy FunMay Friday, everyone.
You know what a payphone is right? You know, that big metal thing with a phone at the end and change inserted to use it. You know, the quick place to call someone when we're not at home? You know, (insert corny joke about cavemen, dinosaurs and other crap you find used to death on Kids' TV shows)?
Well, now that cell phones have become the go-to method for outside calls, and the payphone has largely gone extinct (heh, pun), it's often a thing for some people born after mid- to late-2000s to not know what one is and ask what it is?
This happened in this video where a young boy, Jake, begins to discovers what "old people" (I use that term very loosely) took for granted for decades. It's funny and kinda heartwarming, too. His mom's commentary is funny, too.
Imagine his annoyance years from now, when his parents talk to him about how they'd use the payphone back in the day before the freedom of their own phone in their bedrooms, listening to Tiffany and New Kids on the Block, and going to the mall with their friends for new legwarmers, Walkman's and acid-washed Denim jean jackets,
and his grandparents talk to him about the payphone in the same tone as saying "When I was a child, we used to walk to school up a hill in the snow with with weak hand-me-down shoes, and then we'd steal chicken from the neighbor's farm and it it for dinner for the next few days, and watch TV at the malt shop where the Negroes weren't allowed, and then laugh when"...Sorry, taking this dark joke a little too dark.
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