Payphones Past

“I found your father!”

I spotted this man using a payphone on New Years Day, 2014. He spoke loudly enough for all to hear. At first I thought was saying “I PHONED YOUR FATHER!” After thinking about it for a while I think he was actually saying “I FOUND YOUR FATHER!” Whatever his words, he angrily hung up the phone after repeating them several times.

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