What happened to all the pay phones?

The other day I made the mistake of leaving my cell phone at home. No problem I thought I would just find a pay phone to make a few important calls. Oh how wrong I was, I drove mile after mile, gas station after gas station, strip mall after strip mall, and no working pay phone at all.

I must have been sleep the past couple of years because I did not know they took most pay phones down. I feel sorry for a person who does not have the credit to get a pay phone. I know in urban (inner-cities) there are pay phones, but in the suburbs...good luck.

There has to be an Illuninati connection to this shift!