Back when you had to plan things. We'd meet up at the Tennis courts at 9am, but Nick didn't show up. So someone went to a payphone, put in a quarter ... and a dime, and called the number they had memorized based on the pattern it made on the phone.

"His mom said he left 20 minutes ago?"

"Then where the hell is he?"

..and then you'd just kinda have to wait.