Neanderpundit

Sunday 18 Jan 2015

the airport world of Jacques Cousteau

See how the gentle payphone stands in lonliness, its mate gone and its phone book hanging dejectedly as it waits for the increasingly rare coins.

on 19 Jan 2015 at 7:21 am TBG

So very sad…

An endangered species, with no one but drug dealers and prostitutes to care about their demise…
on 19 Jan 2015 at 10:32 am Jim

Does it have a shoulder thingy that goes up?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
on 19 Jan 2015 at 4:23 pm Guy S

We’re going to send Jim in to take a closer look! Owing to the types of individuals who still use these lonely information transferral kiosks, it’s a good thing he has Mutual of Omaha!!

*Yeah, I know that was part of a different show which brought the wilds of nature into our living rooms. But I remember both series fondly.
on 19 Jan 2015 at 5:11 pm Elisson

These things still exist?
on 19 Jan 2015 at 6:14 pm Og

Guy: good idea. Lets get David Attenborough too!
on 19 Jan 2015 at 8:59 pm Old NFO

And international travelers that left their cell phones on the airplane… :-)
on 20 Jan 2015 at 8:06 am Professor Hale

And the only people who use the phone book are people needing scrap paper to write phone numbers on.