🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Apr 4

Girlfriend's mom: Oh, Alice, while you're here, I have this lockbox that I don't have a key for.

Me: Grab it!

Girlfriend's mom: It's not really urg—

Me: —It's open.

Girlfriend's mom: Wow.

Girlfriend's mom: ...darn, it's not full of cash.

Show threadjgeorgeApr 4

@alice i bought a payphone from an antiques expo today, and i know my way around one and picking this one up it was heavier than it should have been. I turned it upside down (after purchase, away from the seller) and heard a fair number of coins sloshing around in it. :)

This was almost a lockpicking reply but I do not have the chops (nor do I know anyone who does) who can pick the lock. the pins ROTATE to set. It’ll get drilled out and replaced, sadly. :(

Show threadjgeorgeApr 5

@alice But just look at it in all it’s filthy glory!

A 198x Western Electric 1D2 payphone, in less than ideal but still better-than-average condition. There are coins rattling around inside of it, so there’s a slight discount off the price once I get it open.

Show threadRealGene ☣️
@jgeorge @alice
Look on this beauty and despair (it's still in operation):
Apr 5 at 5:18pmWeb
Show threadOnniApr 5
@RealGene @jgeorge @alice I wanna know who cashes in on the last one still in operation
Show threadRealGene ☣️Apr 5
@onni @jgeorge @alice
I know of another one that's also in spectacular condition, but disconnected.
The owners of its location don't seem to realize what they have…
Show threadOnniApr 5
@RealGene @jgeorge @alice Couldn't we do a joint heist like Oceans 8
Show threadDianeApr 5

@RealGene @jgeorge

Not only operational, it looks like someone's still cleaning it.

Show threadRealGene ☣️Apr 5
@alienghic @jgeorge
You are correct.
Show threadjgeorgeApr 5

@alienghic @RealGene Other recent pickup was an indoor use at a restaurant. Looks like it’s never been used.

A nice shiny barely-used payphone from a recent acquisition. Came with keys, and works, already programmed to take quarters on a regular phone line!

Show threadMuro deGrizecoApr 5

@RealGene

Does anyone have a direct dial number back into the 70s? I have some quarters. We need to call them. We need to warn them. Because this current timeline shouldn't exist!

Show threadjgeorgeApr 5
@RealGene @alice Indoor payphones are a treat, they’re usually in very nice shape. I picked one up recently that had been in a restaurant for decades, probably rarely if ever used, it looked brand new, and had the keys with it!