Exclusive: technology defeats teenagers by judithg

Exclusive: technology defeats teenagers

Three foreign exchange students inside the box and one outside. I'm guessing they were avoiding using mobiles because of the charges. They studied the instructions in the phone box and re-emerged looking baffled. I can't say I blame them - last time I tried to use a phone box it was full of instructions about texting and Wi-Fi - it wasn't clear at all how you actually make a phone call!
really cool
October 22nd, 2011  
Super street shot and a great story! Thanks Judith for your fav and your kind words :)
October 22nd, 2011  
Wow, awesome pattern!
October 22nd, 2011  
lol love it judith how funny and that must be some busy road with four phone boxes great capture
October 22nd, 2011  
Great collection of iconic red phone boxes.
October 22nd, 2011  
You still have phone boxes?!?!
October 22nd, 2011  
Great photo and story. I love the red..so striking.
October 22nd, 2011  
LOL - great! Phone booths are pretty much a thing of the past in our area.
October 22nd, 2011  
haha .
takes me back to a time , impossible to credit these days .. when one of my Girl Guides's bages was for... making a call from a phone box....
Ohones were so rare..
October 22nd, 2011  
I didn't understand them the last time I was in one. People from overseas dont' stand a chance! lol
October 22nd, 2011  
Great shot - I have shot these boxes before...and answers a question I posed a while back about whether anyone actually uses them any more...there we go - NO, too difficult!!
October 22nd, 2011  
Love these old red boxes - they are rarely seen here now as we all go mobile.
October 22nd, 2011  
Great capture.
October 23rd, 2011  
fab pic... always amuses me seeing tourists getting excited taking pics of red boxes in central london
October 23rd, 2011  
Ooh, I love phone boxes. I don't remember the last time I saw a phone booth here.
October 23rd, 2011  
This is a great photograph! I like the color contrast as well as the various lines and textures. Sad to think one day those red boxes will be in a museum.
October 23rd, 2011  
This is a wonderful capture.
October 23rd, 2011  
Hihi, this is sooo funny! Of course I'm a sucker for those red phoneboxes.
October 23rd, 2011  
Love this shot...and the fact that there are still functioning phone booths in the world. Apparently they've become more complex than I remember and it probably costs more than a quarter to make a call these days. Nice addition of bicycles in the composition. :)
October 23rd, 2011  
Interesting shot.
October 23rd, 2011  
What a great street shot! I was in London briefly a couple years ago and saw these for the first time. Can't tell you how many photos I took of them! Here we call them phone booths and I have not seen one in years.
October 23rd, 2011  
Very well spotted... 4 phone boxes in a row! Love the story behind too.

I don't remember seeing a phone box in Paris nowadays... maybe there still are in some remote places.
October 23rd, 2011  
Cool photo! Those boxes are iconic, I hope they never stop being on our streets.. I was looking up prices of old ones a few weeks ago, very expensive.
October 23rd, 2011  
PS - like the Damned poster too. Goth lives on!
October 23rd, 2011  
@peggysirk I went in and checked - 60p - pretty much a whole dollar!! 20p last time I used one though to be fair I don't suppose they cover their costs!
October 23rd, 2011  
haeae! great shot.
..unfortunately these boxes are going the same way as pubs.. and when they gone, they gone.
October 23rd, 2011  
oh dear that is quite funny! love the old phone boxes tho!
October 24th, 2011  
haha....this is great! i haven't seen a phone both in years and ours were never this cool!
October 24th, 2011  
Kim
Great color and repetition!
October 24th, 2011  
lol This makes me feel sooooo old! Whatever happened to pressing button B? haha and as for the comment...we still have phone boxes??? lol Brilliant shot Judith on the PP.
October 24th, 2011  
I love this photo! Love the phone boxes in the UK, so many photographic opportunities. Great photo!
October 24th, 2011  
Great shot! Maybe they will switch them to WI FI stations! haha...
October 24th, 2011  
Bring back red phoneboxes all over the land lol! Lets just get simple pay phones in them!! Great pic!
October 24th, 2011  
Just goes to show how having your camera with you at all times you get the best pictures, so well observed.
October 24th, 2011  
Fabulous street shot and story!!
October 25th, 2011  
Yes! Phone boxes - love them!!!
October 26th, 2011  
hahaha. Nice shot.
October 27th, 2011  
Love this line up of red boxes, amusing that you can't make a phone call in them any longer.
October 27th, 2011  
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