If you walked past a public phone box and it was ringing, would you answer it?

No, I wouldn’t, knowing that someone must be waiting for that call. I hadn’t known for many years that one could also receive phone calls in them.
I just read that the remaining 12,000 booths will have disappeared by the end of next year. Some of them will be used as smart cells repeating mobile phone signals, though, but telephoning will not be possible any more.

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Depends, if one was taking a pee at the time :grin:

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have they still got button A or button B you have to press

Not seen one of those for a few decades. :slightly_smiling_face:

No - The phone box might blow up. :slight_smile:

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RUN!! In this day and age it could be a bomb.

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I would answer.
Just like a crying baby, you can’t ignore it

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I have done many times in the past,i can`t remember the last time i saw one that was not full of books for the locals to borrow.

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I didn’t even know there were still such a thing as a phone box on the street. Most that were left around here are now lending libraries full of books for people to borrow for free… Others have flowers growing in them.

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Yes, I see phone boxes like that out in the villages. The dilapidated old boxes in my neck of the woods are used for far more unsavoury purposes, I just wish they’d be demolished, utterly pointless things!

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I haven’t seen a public phone in so long, I’d think it was a prank. I wouldn’t answer.

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Not if I saw this

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Telephone boxes are used as Portaloos these days.

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I believe they are much sought after as a garden feature.

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I might have done in my younger, more mischievous day.

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I certainly would have answered that phone. :smiley:

Knowing my luck, it would be an obscene caller! :astonished: :open_mouth:

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Yes I might be curious enough

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Could be heavy breathing, clear yer throat

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It could be Nigeria calling about a great aunt you didn’t know you had who has left you a absolute fortune.

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