@melissakristintv: Back in the 90s, if you didn’t have a quarter for the payphone, you could make a collect call. But to dodge the fees, you’d say your entire message as your ‘name’ when prompted. So instead of ‘Melissa,’ you’d shout, ‘Momcomepickmeupatsix!’ She could then decline the charges and hang up, but she still got the message—free of charge. I don’t recall utilizing this one with my own parents growing up, but I knew others who did and it was a fun well-known workaround! 😂 #90skids #nostalgia #90s #payphone #collectcall #90snostalgia #millennials #genx #boomer #fyp
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Wednesday 14 May 2025 00:00:30 GMT
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🫐BlueBerry🫐 :
WAIT THATS SO SMART
2025-05-14 00:06:53
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Dani :
till this day I'm still confused on how it works
2025-05-14 01:05:47
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neverlearnedhowtoread :
But couldn't you just keep calling and doing this to give more info? Or was there like a limit
2025-06-02 16:33:11
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M :
what if u dint say yes or no
2025-05-14 15:02:52
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Jett ☄️ :
um, nice try, but Down the Clown didn't exist in the 90s...
2025-05-26 05:15:04
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Wendy Shoudel :
My gf used to accept collect calls from her man in jail on the local pay phone!!!
2025-05-14 23:42:01
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lwl2001 :
even the mom is proud
2025-05-15 18:04:32
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sux to be an adult 🫠 :
I got a belt once for accepting my sisters calls. never accepted again 😅
2025-07-13 02:21:02
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Natalee 🤍 :
When my mom was in prison I would get “you have a collect call from inmate ‘putmoneyonmybooks’ to accept this call press 1” and I would have to call the prison commissary and buy her a phone card bc they never updated the system from collect calls so it would immediately hang up if I answered
2025-06-17 03:07:33
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Bbgun on COD :
Used to do this for jail calls lmao😭I would have no phone money and just do this 20 times to get a message across to someone lol
2025-07-17 09:00:36
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boo boo 221 :
This feels nefarious has me creesed
2025-05-14 09:28:21
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Ouiza :
I just noticed you used to translate languages……
2025-05-17 16:19:31
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Mehjor :
the amount of people who didnt know about collect calls is crazy.
2025-05-15 06:22:08
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Ori Technologies :
LOL, Truth
2025-07-19 22:30:41
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✨Donna✨ :
ain't no way I'm this early
2025-05-14 00:04:41
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Cool guy✝️🐠 :
When was this 20 years ago 😭
2025-05-14 16:20:33
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Mikki Mendiola :
when cellphone was rising and calls are way so expensive, we do the DROP call. you call your friend within 5 seconds and drop the call and do it again 🤣
2025-07-19 06:27:07
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c.a.s.s.i.e15 :
my brothers did this when they were in jail and needed more money on their account 😅
2025-06-19 19:49:53
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KC :
Yep. This is how we did
2025-05-15 04:28:40
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Baby G :
I did this when I went to jail lol 😂
2025-07-04 18:56:58
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Zotob :
when I was a kid my friends and I somehow found out the maintenance test code for them. it was just a couple numbers with a * and unlimited free calls and boy did we call everyone.
2025-07-12 10:49:12
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lokiuruz :
When I was in HS in 07 I had a tracphone and limited credits. So my dad and I worked out that if I called and let it ring twice and hung up, it was time for him to get me from practice.
2025-05-15 15:11:39
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Kiara Carol :
in the 80's my uncle made a little sound box that imitated the sound of a quarter being put into a payphone so that my family could get free calls anywhere 😂
2025-07-03 21:45:04
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1.solaruim :
Kids actually did this back then
2025-07-02 10:46:08
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