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by thr0w__4w4y 1890 days ago
Yep, one of my friends in high school (1980s) was on my sports team. He would call his mom "collect" from the school's payphone [0] at the end of each practice (end times varied by as much as an hour) and the name was something from a Chevy Chase movie (Fletch?) and his mom would reject the call, and get in the car and head over to pick him up.

[0] Remember this was the 80s, no mobile phones. And a collect call was free from a payphone, since the callee was expected to accept and pay the charges.