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JR Vansant, who lives with his mother in suburban Long Island, N.Y., turns penny-stock holdings into a fortune, using postal orders and calls from a school pay phone to conceal that he is still in sixth grade.

I remember sad Bob Seger on a pay phone in a hallway talking to somebody — like, “I’m headed to Michigan, where I should be a god, but I’m opening for Bachman-Turner Overdrive.”

I went to a pay phone and called a Chrysler expert I knew about.

He went to find a pay phone so he could call his loved ones and tell them he was OK.

“You could make a chance contact at any pay phone, but the odds of reaching someone out in the desert are incredibly remote,” he said.