I remember a deliberate effort to remove pay phones from the public places of Michigan, back in the 1990s. It was thorough enough that I was startled to see they were still allowed in the airport. It's been a long time, of course, and the War On Drugs may have changed enough to no longer think of pay phones as tools of the enemy.

And shouldn't be allowed to, if it's known that crowds overload cellphone coverage, because people still need to communicate!

It's odd how standards change about how much people need to communicate. How fast the standards have changed.

I'm planning to be at the march with Redbird and Cattitude, but only if I can collect enough spoons before Saturday. I left a lot of them at Arisia.