What’s a pay phone?

“What’s a pet rock?”
“What are bellbottoms?”
“What’s VHS?”

The younger generations are wonderful aren’t they? Their seemingly innocent questions serve as a constant reminder that what was once special is now gone and that we are getting older, me included. (Hey, I’m familiar with VHS at least.)

The next question in our not-so-distant future: What is a pay phone?

AT&T has announced plans to hang up on the pay-phone business altogether by getting rid of its remaining 65,000 phones by 2008. Phone providers BellSouth and Qwest have already said their goodbyes to the dwindling business. AT&T’s increase to $.50 a…