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A Polaroid of Kristina, part 6
Date: 8/15/2015, Categories: Masturbation, Author: oceanrunner1974, Rating: 3, Source: LushStories
was most likely the case that you would use a payphone to make plans or check in. And it was often inconvenient to get an answering machine, although not many people had them then, because once the call was connected, you lost your quarter. If you hung up before any call went through, you got the coin back. A few years before, when I had lobbied hard for permission to ride the subway by myself to school, the condition that my parents had not budged on was that I had to call them once I got to school. (I had forgotten once, and all hell had broken loose.) Not wanting to be ridiculed for having to “call my mommy” in front of my friends from the phone at the school’s front desk, I instead used the payphone on the corner. But, my parents refused to give me the extra $1.25 a week it would take for me to make these phone calls, because they felt there was no reason for me not to use the school’s phone. $1.25 a week in those days was a lot of money to me, so we came up with a workaround. I would call home and let the phone ring once and then hang up (and get my quarter back). My parents would know not to answer that call. Then I would call a second time and let the phone ring twice, again getting my quarter back, and my parents would once more not answer the phone. Such a succession of rings was unlikely to be random, and it was a free way of “calling” home to let them know I had arrived safely. “Ingenious!” she said with a smile when I explained the principle to her. “So if I ...