Pay Phone: Difference between revisions

* Someone calling a pay phone, usually as the confused protagonist walks by and hears it ring.

* Looking up someone's address on the phonebooks attached to the payphones and ripping out the page involved to have it. Almost inevitably, every phone book searched is missing the particular page because it was ripped out.

 

== [[Anime and Manga]] ==

* In the ''[[Batman]]'' story of the "Penny Plunderer" (the one the giant penny in the Batcave comes from), the eponymous villain is caught at the end when he needs a nickel to call for help on a pay phone...and only has five pennies.

* In a [[Secret Six]] comic, [[Complete Monster|Junior]] is talking on a pay phone when a prostitute appears and demands to be allowed to use the phone, repeatedly yelling at [[Too Dumb to Live|the cloaked and menacing figure who is discussing torturing the person on the other end of the line]] that she, too, has rights and needs to use the phone ''this instant''. Things... do not end well for her

 

== [[Film]] ==