Payphones Past

Payphone Users of the 21st Century

This is a photograph of 2 human beings using a public pay telephone (PPT) in New York City in the year 2012.

Contrary to Tweetdom’s hurry-home wisdom it turns out that human beings still use payphones.

But if you tweet and blog and tumbl yourself to badly-needed sleep then certain obviousnesses of reality pass you by.

Pass you by.

Pass you by.

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