Girls of the Phone Booth !!!

[KatherineRusTS]

I'm very interested to learn from the participants of the forum about : do you consider it humiliating for him to go to the girl that advertises itself in a Phone Booth ? How do you access the girls ? Don't you think that is the last stop for the girls working in the escort service ?

[Stavros]

Not all the pictures on those cards relate to the girl behind the phone number; for some men, not just tourists with poor English, this might be the only way to find out how to contact someone, and others may be seeing an image of a transexual for the first time. I am surprised that public phone booths still exist, given that most people have mobiles. It is a sleazy and unwanted part of London life, I would be happy to see it go.

[GroobySteven]

I contacted a teacher out of a phone booth for "Help with my French A-Levels".
I did not get what I expected and failed my exams.

[danthepoetman]

Pauvre Steven! Manque de pot?
There's always strange twists when it comes to tongue learning! ;)

[runround04]

I contacted a teacher out of a phone booth for "Help with my French A-Levels".
I did not get what I expected and failed my exams.

Hope it wasnt an oral exam....

[Prospero]

The way escorts have advertised in London has constantly evolved. Back in the 1960s and early 70s I think that girls (and not transsexuals at all) used to have adverts in newsagents windows. "Big french chest for sale" , "French lessons" etc. Local newspapers used to carry adverts as well as did some other magazines and newspapers - Forum and What's on In London and the Sport. Then until recently public phone boxes were full of cards with adverts... most of dubious authenticity. These days they do persist but its mostly online.

In answer to Stavros though, I think some pay phones exist because not everyone does have a mobile. In some remoter parts of the UK mobile coverage is very patchy and then, of course, there are plenty of overseas visitors without mobiles. Plus where else would drunks have to piss in late at night?

[danthepoetman]

Very enlightening, Prospero! Thanks!
And yes, not everyone has a cel. I don't. No mobile and no answerphone. I just don't want the burdon of having to call back if I don't feel like it, or the displeasure of having to answer to someone I don't want to talk to. Besides, I don't need it for my work, so it's no use to me. I must admit though, that I don't have a door bell either, for the exact same reason. :)

[rockabilly]

Phone booth?
Are we talking Tardis or Bill & Ted?

[Prospero]

No door bell. What do people throw rocks at your window then dan? O rdo you blast them with a shotgun as they drive up the approach road to your log cabin?

[Prospero]

We call them phone boxes in the UK, rockabilly.

The Tardis on the outside is a police telephone box. There are very few of them around now.

[danthepoetman]

No door bell. What do people throw rocks at your window then dan? O rdo you blast them with a shotgun as they drive up the approach road to your log cabin?

LOL! I'm not that bad... I ask friends to call when they arrive (with their mobile, lol) or just to knock. But it does keep me from having to deal with Jehova witnesses or Mormon elders, and every other of these little annoyances of daily life... It makes things a bit more difficult for pizza delivery but we simply stick a paper on the door saying "Knock hard"... :)

[Stavros]

There used to be a newsagent in Soho at the end of Poland St around the corner from the public toilets by Berwick St market, and they used to have the most fascinating ads in a box outside: I was tempted to write them down but it would have given the wrong impression, but the ones I remember are 'French Lessons', and 'Air Hostess Seeks Ground Position'...

[tsadriana]

Not all the pictures on those cards relate to the girl behind the phone number; for some men, not just tourists with poor English, this might be the only way to find out how to contact someone, and others may be seeing an image of a transexual for the first time. I am surprised that public phone booths still exist, given that most people have mobiles. It is a sleazy and unwanted part of London life, I would be happy to see it go.
I saw that in London all over the places all i can think its a bit of risk fpr both parts working girl and the guy who calls.

[KatherineRusTS]

I look here cheerful company :)))) Thank you guys for what you have cheered us up and gave a good laugh ))) I am glad that this post brought a lot of positive emotions )
Today I walked past a phone booth and I get the impression that the whole of London is a solid one brothel , there was more ads - than the population of London )))

[robertlouis]

I contacted a teacher out of a phone booth for "Help with my French A-Levels".
I did not get what I expected and failed my exams.

On the other hand, look where that encounter has led you..... :dancing:

[robertlouis]

In answer to Stavros though, I think some pay phones exist because not everyone does have a mobile. In some remoter parts of the UK mobile coverage is very patchy and then, of course, there are plenty of overseas visitors without mobiles. Plus where else would drunks have to piss in late at night?

Those "remoter parts" would presumably include Jericho's Welsh mountain fastness, where all the cards look like this....