UK public phones required payment _after_ connection. There was a small pause between connection and the noise to make payment, to allow the callee to recite their number so that the caller knew they were through to the correct one. Just enough time to get a terse sentence out with necessary information. I rarely had to pay for a call until I got to university and had to make the usual grovelling begging ones.
> On 10 November 2020 at 21:22 Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Luxury! When I were a lad if I wanted to talk to me mam we ‘ad to ‘ire a > > relay team of Swiss yodellers to yodel a message from one side o’ t’valley > > to t’other. ‘Appen she wuz wuckin’ dahn t’pit that day, it bein’ in > > Lancashire like, we ‘ad t’ire a team of Ethiopian runners too, and a > > scribe, cuz t’yodellers wouldn’t yodel into Lancashire on a Sunday. An’ we > > had to cleave uz sticks uz sells for t’message, we couldn’t ‘ave ‘em cloven > > for us. > > > > But we were ‘appy. aye. > > Not nearly as exciting, but when I was a teen and I went someplace in the > evening, Mom would have me call collect for myself when I arrived safely and > she’d reject the call so that it wouldn’t cost anything. > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
