“My payphone number had been blacklisted, but the great thing about living in a metropolitan area in the U.S. in the 90s is that there was always another payphone.”
The confession comes first. He got online as a teenager with Luhn-valid fake credit card numbers and a rotating cast of payphones. Thirty years later he buys a Pacific Bell payphone off eBay, pulled from a Vegas casino and still smelling like one. The mounting kit shipped without the studs that hold it up. His ISP still throws in a landline nobody asked for, and now it finally has a use.