Phone

Today I brought F to a short walk outside the cafe shop my family usually go for a brunch.

Quite to my amazement, I found a rank of public phones attached to a series of standing pillars of a telecoms company. Nowadays public phones are almost like an endangered species waiting for their ultimate demise. As the growth of mobile phones advances aggressively, people are more used to the disappearing of public phones as part of cityscape. Who would want to insert coins into the slot for a phone dialing that blesses only a few minutes of connection?

Yet the dying species persist, if only at obscure corners of this city. More to my surprise is one phone which provides a composite solution to the use of inserted coins, phone cards, and, well, a modem port.

A modem port? This is quite something that would fire up some imagination of sci-fi characters.

What a beautiful finding for a short city walk!