Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 30, 2024

Was a nickel.

Your nickel, start talkin’!

I remember pay phones, until there weren’t any….

Pay phones got converted to wifi hotspots here.

Ha. Bears team is gonna beats doggies team any day any time.

Is he wearing Playtex Living Gloves? (“So flexible, you can pick up a dime.”)

Can you hear me now ? … ;-)

ah, coins and folding money…refer to today’s Working Daze.

The responses I remember were either “Wanna bet on it?” or “Who gives a (four-letter-word)”.

With inflation, it would be a quarter now.

“Drop a dime,” and “it’s your nickel.” They still exist in the language if nowhere else.

the saying now is, “you got a cell phone? then call someone who cares”.

The last few times I used a payphone, I was calling the phone company because my landline was out.

As long as the floor is clean when they get done …

In the bin with “that and 2 bits will buy you a coffee.”

I still see the occasional pay phone.

Plugger answers the payphone, in case Mr. Onion rings.

“Here’s a dime, call your mother and tell her there is serious doubt of you ever becoming a lawyer.” - John Houseman in The Paper Chase.

True dilemma – no cell phone in small town with no pay phones and a dead car. Sigh.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Sure, only pluggers remember payphone-derived idioms and aphorisms. But also, only pluggers still think a dime is actually worthwhile to hold on to rather than something annoying in your pocket, so I’m afraid I don’t buy that our bear-man friend here would actually use one to act out his dramatic little response.

This “floor mopping” thing you speak of …

As a kid, we were instructed by our mom to always have a dime in our pocket to call home in case of an emergency.

We always kept dimes in our penny loafers, just in case.

only pluggers understand… “Here’s a dime.”

I think the downtown mall still has a couple by the main doors. My HMO replaced theirs with a regular phone so anyone without a cell phone can still call a cab.

It went up to a quarter before the phones went extinct.

Now I rewrote that joke to use it on my grandkids, it goes………."What kind of cell phone do you have? " They always start to tell you, then I say, “Use that to call or text someone who cares!” Works awesome

I actually had my nephew asked his Mom, “What’s a phone booth?”

Per Travis Tritt song – “Here’s a quarter. Call someone who cares.”