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[jaxs mom]

You complain about " the younger generation"

[ChiliPepper]

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@apple1964 wrote:

You know your old when you can remember pay phones and that you can remember they were once a quarter ....

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@apple1964

Weren't they a dime? Or am I mixing that up?

[catwhisperer]

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@ChiliPepper wrote:

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@apple1964 wrote:

You know your old when you can remember pay phones and that you can remember they were once a quarter ....

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@apple1964

Weren't they a dime? Or am I mixing that up?

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@ChiliPepper...I remember when pay phones were a dime. LOL.

[Skyegirl21]

Yeah, me too-  I seldom know the currrent music/ musicians and during televised red carpet events, don't know some celebs either!  If that's my biggest problem as I age..., lucky me! 😎👍🏼

[ChiliPepper]

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@catwhisperer wrote:

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@ChiliPepper wrote:

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@apple1964 wrote:

You know your old when you can remember pay phones and that you can remember they were once a quarter ....

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@apple1964

Weren't they a dime? Or am I mixing that up?

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@ChiliPepper...I remember when pay phones were a dime. LOL.

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@catwhisperer

That's what I thought! 

Ugh, now I REALLY feel old LOL!

[catwhisperer]

@ChiliPepper...newspapers used to be a dime too. Now they are $2   LOL

[apple1964]

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@ChiliPepper wrote:

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@apple1964 wrote:

You know your old when you can remember pay phones and that you can remember they were once a quarter ....

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@apple1964

Weren't they a dime? Or am I mixing that up?

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No, you are right! Yikes I remember that too.......

[ChiliPepper]

@apple1964

@catwhisperer

Are there even pay phones anymore LOL?

At airports maybe.

[catwhisperer]

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@ChiliPepper wrote:

@apple1964

@catwhisperer

Are there even pay phones anymore LOL?

At airports maybe.

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@ChiliPepper...there probably are, but I can't even remember the last time I have seen one.

[just bee]

Yes, a phone call used to cost a dime.  Hence the idiom, "to drop a dime."

To snitch or inform on someone to a person of higher authority. Originally street slang for informing to police, it refers to the old price of using a public payphone (10 cents).

Inform on or betray someone, as in 'no one can cheat in this class-someone's bound to drop a dime and tell the teacher'. This expression, alluding to the ten-cent coin long used for making a telephone call, originated as underworld slang for phoning the police to inform on a criminal and occasionally is extended to any kind of betrayal.

Hence the book, To Drop a Dime (Paul Hoffman, 1976), about a hitman who spilled the beans on the Campisi Family in Jersey.