The Knight Life by Keith Knight for October 19, 2023

Keef’s some sorta deviated prevert, like the one Keenan Wynn accused Peter Sellers of being in Dr Strangelove. >

…how things change…

Yep, I remember those days myself. In fact I remember a character doing that in a vey old Looney Tunes cartoon.

Ratso did that rather offhandedly in ‘Midnight Cowboy’

Are any pay phones still around, or have they all stopped being usable?

I seem to recall Maynard G. Krebs doing so occasionally in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

Pay phones, cigarette machines… always check for spare change.

I learned that from watching “Midnight Cowboy”.

Maybe it depends on where you live. I looked when I was a kid and never found a nickel. I think nobody in my part of the world (small-town Western Massachusetts) ever walked away from a phone booth leaving money in it. Of course in those days a nickel was worth something — you could buy a candy bar with it.

i have always believed that the change i found in the phones was left from a 911 call, the phone company would refund the coins because 911 call were to be free, the caller doesn’t realize it and leaves the coins in the return … so if you lived in an area that didn’t need to make a lot of 911 calls you would find more phone booths with coins.