@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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Ori Technologies :
LOL, Truth
2025-07-19 22:30:41
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Kerin 🇨🇦 :
or you could unscrew the mouthpiece and connect the metal part inside to the metal handset hook.
2025-05-14 17:55:00
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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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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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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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M :
what if u dint say yes or no
2025-05-14 15:02:52
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Skoden00 🇨🇦 :
You had to talk really quick when we did that back in the day 😂
2025-05-15 19:20:49
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lwl2001 :
even the mom is proud
2025-05-15 18:04:32
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Deathryy0214 :
that was peak calling at the time. that 10 second recording haha😂
2025-07-09 00:49:33
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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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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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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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Vanessa🇨🇦 :
🤣 i used to do this 🤣
2025-07-10 13:59:27
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CaptBarnyard🇨🇦 :
did that several times lol
2025-05-15 08:01:42
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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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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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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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Ouiza :
I just noticed you used to translate languages……
2025-05-17 16:19:31
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Cool guy✝️🐠 :
When was this 20 years ago 😭
2025-05-14 16:20:33
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boo boo 221 :
This feels nefarious has me creesed
2025-05-14 09:28:21
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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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