Jersey*Girl
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Some places choose not to have the payphone ring back. It's due to loitering & drug dealing calls, usually. I was going to post about it yesterday but got busy. I've tried to call a phone when there was an emergency call from dh due to a wreck years ago, it didn't work. High traffic area. It didn't ring back to him as he waited. That was in the
'90's. It was a Circle K though.
Here's a link to the rules per the Payphone Industry. I almost feel asleep reading it but it does give a possibility if SM was there waiting for Heather to call him back, it might not ring. I don't know if he would be there or not.
http://www.apcc.net/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=40
You know what? You're right! Thanks for this! I can't believe none of us considered this before!
Could somebody here that lives in that area go to that payphone and call their own cellphone, then use their cellphone to call back to that payphone? Their caller id would show the number.
If Sidney played it up that he really was leaving his wife and was making Heather worry about him, it would certainly prompt her call back that number, and when not answered she'd be worried enough to contact him in his cellphone thinking he really left the house...
It was bothering me all this time why she'd even call his cellphone an hour later but now I understand it a bit better - bc maybe she was worried about him and truly believed he left his wife. That makes me think he was either telling the truth about wanting to leave Tammy but she found out about the payphone call bc she followed him...OR...it was all a set up. I'm leaning toward set up bc if there's any truth to the indecent exposure charges then how would he have been honest n saying he's leaving his wife? Why would Sidney & Tammy have been marking their territory all over town like dogs in heat?