Thai payphones are unreliable. There are multiple types of payphone, owned by multiple companies and which each seem to prefer a different phone card. Even if you manage to locate three identical payphones side-by-side, each one will react differently to your attempted call - this one won't accept 10 baht coins, that one won't accept phone cards and the third one just won't dial your number. Pierre had the worst time trying to find phones that would let him make calls to Canada, and even local calls were sometimes a gamble. To change Pierre's mood to "seethe" all I have to do is bring up Thai payphones.
The only thing in their favour is that some of them are pretty:
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