Oh, a telephone booth.

1994 One day in May, I walked into the street and saw a brand-new telephone booth standing on the street at a glance. I can't help but blurt out: "Oh, enjoy your mobile phone!" The voice of "Oh" has seven points of surprise and three points of worry.

According to tourists at public expense, the moon in foreign countries is not as round as that in China, but the telephone booth is really exquisite, beautiful and convenient. Non-China telephone booths are comparable. I have never seen a foreign telephone booth. But I was deeply impressed by the telephone booths in some big cities in China. Telephone booths at street corners and busy places are not only the ornament of the city, but also the facilities convenient for the masses. It is the product of modern science and technology and the symbol of modern city.

As far as I know, the telephone booth has nothing to do with the town where I live. Because this small town is 108 thousand miles away from the metropolis, and in recent years, telephones have been installed in thousands of households, and public telephones abound. Why do you need to install another batch of telephone booths? Therefore, when I saw it, I was not surprised. I have to admit, I lack urban awareness.

After the shock, it is happiness. The owner of the telephone booth is really valuable. Apart from economic benefits, social benefits alone are worth writing a book. * * * telephone, telephone booth, this is the mass view, take the mass line. Nowadays, the so-called public telephones on the street are of course convenient to the masses to a certain extent, but the owners of some telephone shops are "chopping" customers without blinking. Now a public telephone booth has been installed, and the price is clearly marked, which is convenient for wage earners and female workers, and for ordinary people who are "bustling for profit". Very good! Very good!

After the joy, it is followed by worry. There is a mailbox next to the telephone booth. It used to be convenient for residents nearby to send letters. But later, someone put the lit firecrackers in and the letter was blown to pieces; Later, the door of the mailbox was pried open and became a waste. I'm afraid the fate of a telephone booth is like a mailbox.

Why do you want to do the mailbox "the hole is wide open?" From this, I think that in order to make our public facilities such as mailboxes and telephone booths safe, apart from strengthening general management, the most important thing is to speed up economic development and rationally distribute wealth; Moreover, politics should be prosperous, science and technology should be developed and education should be popularized.

Telephone booth, may you always be young.

This article was published in City Daily 1994 in May. More than 20 years have passed. Oh, a phone booth? It's gone Instead of "staying young forever", it died! The society has developed and the times have progressed! With the rapid development of science and technology, "one day equals twenty years" has become a reality. You see, in the street, young people and old people; Red girl, gray-haired old woman; The man in the suit and shorts has a 4G mobile phone in his hand. If something happens, you can call as soon as you press the number; Need to be negotiable, video call, visual and narrative; Write a letter, move your fingers, a love letter, a beautiful article, you can send it to your sweetheart or someone who has something to do. Quick and convenient. The telephone booth is gone, and so is the mailbox. An 80-year-old elder sister told me: "I used to want to talk to my son overseas and I had to queue up at the post office." Now at 8 o'clock every night, I take out my mobile phone and have a video call with my son's family in France. How convenient and happy! "

If you casually talk to a young man about a telephone booth, his eyes will open wide: Oh, a telephone booth?