What is with this machine, dammit! Just how crisp and perfect does a dollar-bill have to be before you frickin’ accept it!
Does it have to be right out of the mint and blessed by the president? Bah! I’d say you still wouldn’t accept it! :smack:
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Yeah. I usually kick vending machines while yelling “What, are you too good for my money?”
Juvenile, I know, but passing strangers laugh.
And even if it is crisp, you always have to try ALL FOUR POSSIBILITIES OF INSERTING before the damn thing bites.
Yes, I know the machine has instructions, but they’re just as difficult for me as those drawings telling you how to swipe your debit card at the supermarket. I ALWAYS mess it up.
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Can’t they just put diagrams?! I’ve yet to see a bill-accepting machine in Europe with diagrams. The few bill-accepting machines in Canada come with diagrams complete with a little picture of the Queen so you know which direction to put the damn bill in.
Pity that the dollar coin never took off. Canada has the right idea…they not only have a dollar coin, they also have a TWO dollar coin. The smallest bill issued is the five dollar bill.
Why can’t we have Canada’s “loonies and twoonies” here in the US? Seems that’d be much better suited for vending machines.
One of the odd things that struck me here in Korea is that the bill slots on vending machines work WAY better than the ones in the states!
I think Coke oughta see some industrial spies over here to steal their bill-changing technology…
They do have a diagram - doesn’t matter. I could put that damn thing in there perfectly straight and aligned like the diagram instructs, and it’ll still spit it out. 
Ever notice that the ones at the automated car wash always work? You could fold one any which way till you see the World Trade Center and run it through the was a dozen times crumpled in a little ball, but the machine there will still recognize it. What do those machines have that regular vending machines don’t?
Sounds like someone needs to pay a visit to First Citiwide Change Bank.
Fnord?
Yeah, it’s some Discordian thing or something. I don’t know what it means, but I love words with unusual consonant clusters.
Whoa, here it is again:
Exactly, Lamar. The pop machines in my building won’t take anything that’s not straight from the ATM, but the machine in my laundry room will take any old bill–I’ve had it accept ripped ones, crumply ones, anything. I’m tempted to feed in a piece of paper to see if I’ll get four quarters out, except that would be illegal.
So, are we to conclude that the change machines that take any old bill are really run-down or just work the way they’re supposed to?
Of course, they still don’t work. But at least you only have to put the bill in once to confirm it doesn’t work. So it’s more efficient that way.
Thank God for $1 and $2 coins.
I think this lady could relate to you VERY well!
Just read the whole thing and you’ll see why…eehehe