This ficlet was originally inspired by an HDR image of some decaying phone booths. You can see the pic at its home in the ficlets archive: http://ficlets.ficly.com/stories/25214
It spawned a SFnal ficlet chain in which someone answers a ringing telephone in a mouldering booth, that only went a couple of installments then stopped, alas.
i have a phonebooth on my dorm floor. it’s pretty spiffy. and i see a lot of people using the payphone by where i work. but it’s sadly true, it’s a dying institution.
There are pay phones by the gym at my high school. I used one of them once in 9th grade when I didn’t have a cell yet. I never noticed that they don’t really have a lot around anymore :/