Damn vending machine conspiracy!!

[p@cific@812]

All I wanted was a bag of Skittles. Was that so wrong?... I am now thoroughly convinced that the little metal "corkscrew" thingy that pushes stuff out of the machine was designed specifically to do this to me. Think about it. The mechanism works 9 times out of 10, right? But that 1 time..... pure profit. Pretty ingenious, eh?

So there I was, dropping my 60 cents into the machine when (guess what?) the damn thing didn't make with the Skittles. Now, in an office building with no doors on the break room, how does one discretely pound/kick the machine? I gave it a couple good thuds, but people started to look my way like I was foretelling the end of the world or something. What did I do? I gave in. I crumbled before the evil vending machine syndicate and gave them another 60 cents. Eventhough I now have two bags of Skittles, they just aren't quite as sweet.....

[JessEnigma]

Most of the vending machines in my school were replaced last year with new ones without this problem. They can detect when something gets stuck in the corkscrew thingie and keeps turning it until it drops. So cool.

So thus, you can always hope for new vending machines. You may have to hope for a while, but eventually, you never know.

jessica

[leechbabe]

We don't got no vending machine - just they guy down stairs who occasionally goes on lolly runs for me. For sure I'd give him a few kicks if he took my money and didn't give me my lollies.

"I need my sugar fix god dang it."
:: kicking hapless male in shins until he produces the loot ::

[zweisamkeit]

Wow, you only have to pay 60¢ for Skittles? Ours are 75¢, and things seem to jam quite often.

There are no doors in the lobby where our machines are located either, but that doesn't stop me from pounding the glass of the machine. . Of course, that's what everyone does around here, so any looks garnered say, "Damn candy bar stuck again? That sucks."

[CRorex]

I already want pyschotic about the blazing hot cheetos thing....

Our vending machine is facing the windows in the breakroom...

Texas + summer + windows + no clouds = melted pool of m&m's

[ElwoodCuse]

[Slap Shot]
Fuckin' machine took my quarter!
[/Slap Shot]

I am baffled by the vending machine we recently got at school. It has soda, juice, water, candy, chips, gum, etc. all in the same machine. And the entire inside is refrigerated. Great for drinks and chocolate, but potato chips taste weird when they are ice cold.

[porcupine]

The last time I used a vending machine it was the type where they show the products at the top - the actual mechanism that dispenses the junk food was hidden.

I chose the number for Cheetos (cheese that goes Cccccrruuuuunnnnnnnch).

I got chocolate chip cookies.

[Eats_Crayons]

< Disclaimer >
I swear, I did not do this. I did not witness it . And I cannot identify the culprits.
< /Disclaimer>

One late night, while I was still a student, I was working in the studio. I got the hankerin' for a snacky. I went to the vending machine to find that some unscrupulous-yet-crafty students had used an unravelled and re-bent wire coat-hanger to pull lots and lots and lots of snacks out of the vending machine. They managed to get several rows up (as far as the wire would reach) and several snacks deep.

Rumour has it that it started innocenlty enough. Bags of chips are too tall. When the spiral pushes them forward, they end up tipping over and getting wedged -- the top of the bag leaning on the glass front of the vending machine at an angle, with the bottom of the bag still resting on the shelf.

Clever student uses coat hanger to retrieve stuck snack.

Clever student thinks "hey, I wonder if I can drag out other snacks still sitting in the spiral?"

Clever student (likely with an accomplice) manages to get away with many of the chip-like packaged goods, but apparently was not so successful with stiffer snacks like lifesavers or Kit-Kats.