doubleofive said:
I'm still not sure what a "Police Box" is anyway, except that The Doctor's TARDIS takes the shape of one.
-Ignorant Twentysomething American
It's like a phonebooth and mini-office for cops without radios.
When I made it to London a few years back, I jokingly told some other young people at a pub that I had been hoping to see all the police boxes.
They had no idea what I was talking about. I told them I was joking, and just making a Doctor Who refrence, and they knew his time machine was like a phonebooth, but didn't know what a police box was. Those things have been mostly out of use since the 1970s.