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From: "Stephen J. Friedl" <mtndew!friedl@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Payphone Psychology
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Date: 3 Aug 90 22:38:00 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 540, Message 12 of 13


This interesting tidbit from _Privileged Information_, 1 Sept 1990

          Common sense says that when someone is waiting to use a
          pay phone, the person using it will hurry up.  Reality:
          While the average pay phone call without a waiting line
          lasted only a minute and a half, when someone waited
          behind the person using the pay phone... the caller's
          conversation lasted *four* minutes.  Why?  People using
          pay phones become territorial when someone else wants
          to move in...  study by Dr. Barry Ruback of Georgia State
          University.


Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / Software Consultant / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy
+1 714 544 6561  / friedl@mtndew.Tustin.CA.US  / {uunet,attmail}!mtndew!friedl