>   I can't recall the last time I saw a pay phone.  Of course I don't go
 > around looking for one.
 >   I have a seen a lot of places they were, but gone.

Same. People are often asking, "Where can I find a payphone?" & I got nothing,
except in places too far away to walk, so I'll usually let them use my mobile,
as I have unlimited calling/data. . .

 > > Natch, as a youngster, if I could get a ride to go 5 miles, i'd take it.  

 >   If someone is going that way I'll take a ride.
 >   One time a party I had taken a Lyft, since raining, and a neighbour who
 > lived a few blocks away was there and asked if I could get a ride home since
 > going past my place.  They did.
 >   But I would never ask someone "drive me somewhere".

I didn't either, but I would get, especially in therain, offered rides a lot, &
if it seemed more confortable, I'd take it!

About 8, a mate taught me about hitchhiking, & I used that a lot up to &
throughout my teens (covered far more ground than I could've by walkng -- no
way was I going to walk 2,000+ miles in a go!

 >   I wouldn't mind going back to the '80s in a heart beat.  The '70s up to
 > the mid '80s were good times for me.  And before the world started having a
 > collective mental breakdown.


Likewise; the '70s were a serene time for me, as viewing from my status now as
an older adult; they sucked as a kid cuz I got bullied throughout, but if I
could put this mind into my childhood body, I'd end the bullying immediately, &
enjoy the chance to do things much differently. . . then I'd probably have
turned into one of the spoiled pukes running things now! So maybe I'll just
stay me & when I am. :) 

Your friend,

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Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM
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