It’s my own fault, really - I foolishly believed that, by putting a dollar bill into you, you would give me a can of Coke and 50 cents that I could give to the next machine in exchange for a Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie. Instead, you gave me no Coke and no money back. And it was my last dollar bill, so now I sit here with no snacks. 
Ooh, that happened to me at work once. I put in my money for a sandwich, was going to use the change for a drink and instead I got nada. For some reason one of my co-workers thought it was funny. No dinner and I’m being laughed at? I wanted to smack her until I felt I’d gotten $5 worth.
Sorry about your snacks.
You know, a couple of weeks ago I put money into a coke machine and got two cokes!
HA-ha!!!
Just think of them as gambling machines, where you never quite know what your payoff will be …
596 posts in two years and all you got is a coke machine took my money? Sheesh…
How about this one, I put my sox on this morning and one of them had a hole in it. Darn. Golly.
But it was a whole dollar! And it was my last dollar! I had to spend my afternoon uncaffeinated!
And I guess I’m pitting myself, because this Coke machine has stolen my money several times before, yet I keep using it. Stupid JerH.
Well, if you’re going to darn it, what’s the problem?
It’s not just the money: it’s losing your money and not getting the snack you were craving. Talk about hitting you when you’re down…
Come to think about it, my instance could have been karmic payback for all the free games of pinball I played back when I was a kid and my uncle had a quarter on a string.
Once I put in .75 for orange soda, and ended up with four of them.
Beat that.
I once put a dollar in a coke machine, and then five years later, BAM! Herpies.
I took your dollar, as advance payment for moving this thread to MPSIMS.
I drank your Coke too. Ha!
The vending machines at school did this. Very annoying. On the up side, they sometimes gave out free stuff.
All the profits from our Coke machines go to the local school for the blind. They teach students vocational skills, like filling Coke machines. You can always tell when there’s a new trainee. Push the Sprite button and out comes a Dr Pepper. Woo Hoo! It’s better than Vegas!
I have no fun Coke story, but I once got over ten bags of Doritos for 75 cents… there were a bunch of bags pressed up against the glass in two neighboring rows, and I figured I’d take a gamble on it… sure enough, all of one row fell, taking the neighbor out with it.
I once put in 50 cents for a Diet Coke and ended up with the machine spitting its entire inventory over the sidewalk.
I went inside to find a store clerk. When we got back outside the machine was still dropping one can per second. There must have been 50 cans on the ground by that point.
We used to have a Coke machine at work that would sometimes take your money and not give you anything. The next time someone put money in, however, it would kick out two cans. Every time. People had a custom of folding a napkin and sticking it in the coin slot of any vending machine that was on the fritz.
Napkin flag in the Coke machine=free Coke. I got a lot of those.
I once got four cans of V-8 for the price of one. I took the one I paid for, and left the other three as a surprise for someone else. Good karma, and all that.
Oh yeah? Well I once put a quarter in a vending machine and it EXPLODED. Beat that. 
Why doesn’t this ever happen when I got ATMs?