Is it wrong to use a vending machine

One time my mom hated me for a couple months because I got my kid sister a $10 gift certificate for Chuck E Cheese and I thought it was a bad deal because it cost $4 in S+H! But instead of 1, they gave her 10 coupons, so they went to CEC every weekend for a couple months.

No. It’s not your fault they screwed up. They’ll figure it out eventually. Enjoy your .20 cheetos while it lasts.

I’m confident that after six years they’ve probably figured it out.

I was hoping for a [sad update] wherein the OP was sent to jail for his vending machine “robbery” and had just been released early on good behavior, but was restricted by his terms of probation to never eat Cheetos from vending machines ever again.

The vending machine at work recently gave me a 3 musketeers bar for a nickel. Next time I saw the machine’s stocker (the husband of a co-worker) I told him about the mistake and paid him the remainder of the cost, and he was flabbergasted and fixed it. Next time I saw him, he gave me a buck and said to get my next candy bar on him. It all worked out in the end.

About thirty-six years ago, I worked in a liquor store, as a stock boy. The owner [del]sold[/del] stocked Yoo-Hoo, in a corner of the cooler, right next to the Near Beer.

Only, he never actually sold any. Also, they never rotated out the unsold stock. I can’t find a picture of separated Yoo-Hoo, and it’s probably just as well, or I’d show you what it looked like, and you’d understand why no one ever bought it.

Think of a bottle of oil and vinegar, that hasn’t been emulsified, so the oil is floating on top. Then instead of vinegar, imagine that the bottom part is darkish brown.

Anyway, they could have given me all of that for free and I still wouldn’t want it. I can’t imagine anyone looking at it and saying “Mmmm.”

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As a child of the early sixties, I’m here to tell you that five cents is the exact right price for a 3 Musketeers Bar.

And Cracker Jacks are a dime, just like it says on the TV commercial (YouTube appears to be suppressing copies of that commercial and only making available the one that substituted “and you gotta have it now” for “and you’ve only got a dime”. It existed, and that’s the right price for Cracker Jacks, I tells ya!)

Actually, that would have been accurate even in 2007. In fact, I first used one of these machines before the new millennium.