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Ye olde worlde phone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A class of primary school kids have a long wait at Zoo station.\u00a0 A group of them discover the public telephone.\u00a0 Press buttons!! A receiver on a cord!!\u00a0 Public phone calls are free now so 7 of them line up and call their parents on this antique communications device.\u00a0 Such excitement!<\/p>\n

I feel old.<\/p>\n

A few days later<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parmesan cheese attack on my local pay phone. It\u2019s rubbed into everything and pressed into the headset. Tried to scrape it off myself but it needs a technician. The station entrance is now redolent with Parmesan. Hope the birds like it.\u00a0 Odd thing is – it didn’t put off the under 12’s who had a grand time playing with it despite the smell.\u00a0 Come to think of it – strange smells are part of my remembered the public phone experience too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A class of primary school kids have a long wait at Zoo station.\u00a0 A group of them discover the public telephone.\u00a0 Press buttons!! A receiver on a cord!!\u00a0 Public phone calls are free now so 7 of them line up and call their parents on this antique communications device.\u00a0 Such excitement! I feel old. A …<\/p>\n

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