I mean really, when is the last time you saw someone actually put a quarter into the phone slot and make a phone call. Is it even a quarter any more? For that matter, when is the last time that you–or anyone you know–picked up one of those pay phones and actually heard a dial tone?
The booths exist now, I’m sure, as sheer revenue-producing devices for the city, and while I’m all for the city making more money (thus perhaps enabling the sanitation workers to make more money, stop being angry at the mayor, and start picking up garbage), I’m tired of these mini-billboards touting things I don’t want to look at.
Although actually, it’s not the looking that’s the problem. It’s the explaining.
My kids know what “endurance” means. Should I tell them that this ad is for some particularly long-lasting kind of underwear?
How would you explain the relevance of “endurance” to what, exactly, these two people are doing? Or preparing to do?
