I wish we’d get the cool machines the Japanese have. Japanese vending machines. The car parking garage is interesting. I see this perverted Japanese sex fetish is now sold in a Used Girl Panties vending machine. I was looking for one of the vending machine convenience stores, where a robot arm moves around the building to dispense your convenience store item.
I know you’re joking. But I can’t resist - The OP is analogous to the server trapping you in his restraunt until you either order something else, or leave WITHOUT your money.
My favorite is a particular style of drink machine that is thankfully getting more scarce now, likely because they bust all the time. They would have a clear front, and then two little grabber arms would open, supposedly dropping the drink forward at a slight angle, which would even out when it hit the glass, then down to the door. What would always happen is the drink would tip forward, hit the glass, then lodge there, at an angle. No amount of jostling could get it unstuck, and because it deducts the money when it opens the grabber arms, you are out your cash. I hate those. I avoid them, and if I am VERY THIRSTY and it is the only kind of machine available, I will pick something on the lower racks so it has less of a chance of getting stuck.
It’s not all that easy to GET one either.
Or the spiral type vending machine without the ability to detect zero stock levels. I loved that time where I used the last of my spare change in the hopes of a chocolate fix, only to see an empty metal spiral spin around because I pressed the wrong code.
We have a machine that jacks up the price after you’ve already put in what’s displayed under the product.
Insert: $1.25
Press selection: F5
Display: “$1.35”
Me: Abandons my $1.25 while I sprint back to my office to fish through my desk for a dime.
I put in a $20 bill to buy two light rail tickets in Baltimore this summer. Total was $3-$4. My change? Many handfuls of nickels.
Oh, and Japanese drinks vending machines are the best thing ever. Hot metal cans!
I did the same thing at a Dallas DART vendor. The charge was $3 for the first ticket, and I put in a $20. I thought I won the jackpot on a slot machine, and thought I was going to have 68 quarters to deal with. Luckily, they were all dollars!
Sigh. Now I’m honestly curious. Would someone like to do some research and report back? With pie?
You might go looking for a dime. Me, I’m gonna fetch one of these.
(Image stolen from a current MPSIMS thread.)
Well, God damnit!
Before they changed vendors at work, I used to get multiples of candy, chips, soda, etc. all the time. Since my buddy down the hall grumbled about how I always got lucky and he never did, I always graciously shared my ill-gotten gains with him.
… Little did I know I should have been getting even more lucky! That bastard owes me at least a dozen blowjobs! *
Right. Tomorrow, he can start paying back. He’s now my boss’ boss, so it’ll be easy to get a spot on his calendar. So to speak.
- peanuts, optional.
We’ve got a change machine for the vending machines at work that takes 1s, 5s, 10s, and 20s. This would be great, except the damned thing never knows when it’s about to run out of change. Putting a bill in is kind of like playing the slots, except the best you can hope for is to break even. Once I inserted a twenty and got the machine’s last two dollar coins and nothing else. Piece of shit…
We used to have an old Pepsi machine where I worked that somehow had malfunctioned so that instead of serving you an icy cold can of refreshing Pepsi product, it would actually warm the cans up.
Mmmm, piping hot Pepsi!
I really hate those Babel Fish dispensing machines.
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She should have shelled them first.
They’re much easier if you remember the junk mail.
Sounds like it’s pretty good for someone.
One of the “You know you’ve been in Japan too long” lists includes:
“when you put the equivalent of a $10 bill into a street corner vending machine without a second thought.”
OK, so it’s hard to give a good blowjob with a mouthful of peanuts, and it’s hard to get a good blowjob with a mouthful of peanuts. Thus, we have shown that the key to a good blowjob is swallowing.
No, but if you can, and you have the tv remote in one hand…