In response to scummy pay phones from www.tdavids.com

"Yikes, scrape the scum off these phones and give your favorite biologist a woody!"

I gotta rant a bit about forgetting my cell phone yesterday and then dropping by to use the, oh no, dreaded pay phone.

What an experience this is these days!

It's not enough that you feel like you have to wear surgical gloves when you check out the nearest public phone but I didn't realize it was now 50 cents these days for a local phone call? WTF?! Now I have to start saving change in my ash tray again instead of giving it to my kids or charity lol.

Is the maintenance and upkeep that much on these machines?

You sure wouldn't know it by examining the cradle on these bad boys. Yikes, scrape the scum off these phones and give your favorite biologist a woody!

Why not make it a $1 or $2 a local call and get someone out there with a bottle of disinfectant to wipe off the grime on these machines. I think even Clark Kent would pass on some of these hideous roadside stops.

Pretty soon we're going to see haggard looking folks standing by the roadside with cardboard signs reading: Will work for local telephone call!

Perhaps it gives away my age, but I seem to recall the days when a dime would get you dial tone and it wasn't too terribly long ago that it was 25 cents ... and then 35 cents. Not anymore.

The phone company wins. I've learned my lesson now. It's a jungle in the booth.

I won't forget my cell phone for awhile.

Stupid act by Billing Company from www.adultnetsurprise.com

"Maybe the 21st century equivalent of that jolly guy in the game Operation's nose turning red when you hit the side while trying to remove his funny bone. 750 points!"

Hmmm, so it's the old covert midnight business card planting, eh Kaiser? Keep your head up because companies like this have a way of weeding themselves right out of business.

Websitebillingbutnopaying, that's a very weak tale, very weak.

I can just see how this whole thing shook down too.

It's the kind of thing that could make for good reality webTV, say if dokk setup the night vision camera to capture the slow, deliberate pace of Websitebillingbutnopaying Evin carefully laying down the cards and trying to avoid detection.

Maybe the 21st century equivalent of that jolly guy in the game Operation's nose turning red when you hit the side while trying to remove his funny bone. 750 points!

I wonder if websitebillingnopaying dude had the suction cups and a black clad assistant easing him down the rope through the ventilation duct.

Saying to himself something like, "Boy I am sure glad I didn't pay to sponsor this AWE event like that 'other' billing company. Yeah, they might have thought my company worked out in the open and reputably. Can't have that!"

And can you just hear the Mission Impossible background music playing?

Yeah, it's ridiculous alright, and if I was Mitch at Netbilling I'd be glad that a [cough] competitor like websitebillingbutnopaying didn't want to try and do the sensible thing and network with his company.

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