Telephone booth

A telephone booth is a community lot object that Sims can use it to call a taxi.

The Sims 2
All community lots include a telephone (in the occupying place of a generated mailbox on residential lots by default) with an outdoor garbage bin next to it. Additional ones can be bought from buy mode under "Electronics".

The object serves as an essential device to return home or visit another lot. A player can command a sim to "Call a taxi" or "Walk to Lot": which interaction is available depends on the method the sim/household arrived to initial community lot after leaving home. Sims that arrive by a car can't leave the lot by a taxi or by foot. Playable witches and warlock can choose to fly to a community by a broom, while non-playables will do so autonomously: both of who will always descent next to the telephone booth.

Before the expansion packs, it was possible to leave sims behind If one of the members from the household missed a taxi for departure back to another while remaining on the community lot.