Pay Phone Rip-off

 I asked a stranger for a quarter in downtown Providence

    early Sunday morning - not usually a class act. But I needed a

    quarter to make a call. The gentleman made a PROFIT from this

    bum: I gave HIM 3 dimes.

               Then - this happens a little too often - the damm

    thing swallowed my quarter. This must happen to thousands of

    pay phone users !

              The telephone company monopolies can't make enough

    money by legal robbery.  Tell me Mr. Bigshot Executive , does

    ANYBODY ever get their lost quarters back ? And how ?

                 And too many pay phones are broken down for

    months without  YOU paying the slightest attention.

               I hope some day YOU will really need a quarter

    in downtown Providence.

               I wanted to send that quarter to the Committee to

    Elect Ralph Nader .