Bring back phone booths

[azmouse]

Quote:You're already saying: What? Phone booths? Who uses pay phones anymore?

No one said anything about pay phones. The idea is to put up phone booths -- all right, technically, phoneless booths -- in public places around the country.

The old-style phone booths, with doors that close, and ventilator fans in the ceilings. Either the ones made out of metal and glass that were seen on street corners for generations, or the elegant ones made out of dark wood and glass that were seen in the lobbies of office buildings and in the backs of drugstores.

Phone booths were a wonderfully democratic invention, intended to shut out the noise of the immediate outside world so the person in the booth could privately, in silence, talk with someone miles away.

Are you starting to see where we're going with this?


http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/24/opinion/gr...hpt=hp_bn6

Feel free to count me among the people who are tired of hearing everyone else's private conversations, and is tired of seeing everyone with the hand up to their ear talking on the phone as they walk down the street or worse yet drive a car.
Who is everyone talking to and what could be so important that these devices have to be in use constantly?
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.

[Hekate]

Please. As a very infrequent user of my cell phone, it's awful trying to converse in the ambient noise of the store/shopping mall/roadside/airport or whatever. Good lord. As for others -- I really don't want to know their private business.

[jaxx]

Or how about the family in a restaurant and mom or dad spends the time on the phone? Or a couple out for the evening and both are talking to someone else or busy texting?

The whole thing has gone crazy.