So after poking in 70 cents for a 65 cent coke, the machine spat out not only my delectable caffeinated beverage (**Missy ** licks can appreciatively) but also my nickel and an extra quarter! WOW!
I know have 55 cents! I love my life.
Wow, and if you return the can, you’re 5 cents short of…ANOTHER can of pop. Rock!
Someone cue the Twilight Zone Theme, please. I was just thinking, less than a half hour ago, about you and was going to resurrect the thread about you going South to help with the hurricane clean-up. Very weird. How did it go and are you still there?
And congrats on your new found wealth. I just hope it doesn’t change you. 
Hi Salem! Yep, I’m back in Maryland now, with a nice boring desk job. I updated my Disaster Relief thread a while back, you can check it out here: ta da!
This is your conscience. Give the money back. It will remember. Next time it won’t give you your Coke or your money back
On Monday the Coke machine here at work gave me 2 diet Cokes for the price of 1. I put in my 75 cents, pushed the button and a can came out. As I reached for the can the machine started making thumpy noises like another can was on its way down the chute, so I waited a second and another fell into the tray.
I’ve been afraid to use the machine since then, in case I just used up all my luck.
I’m also extra careful crossing the street for the same reason.
What if I’m all out of good luck?!?
Well, sure! They wouldn’t be decent gambling devices if someone didn’t actually win once in a while! 
Not bad, but I’ve gotten back up to $2 in change plus 3 coke cans.
My foot hurt like hell after that, though.
Now that’s funny! And a little scary. A perfect post!
This reminded of an old Coke machine from college days. It was a long time ago and this was an old machine for even then. It had those wonderful 6 and a half ounce cokes in glass bottles in the student union. Every once in a while the machine would go berzerk(close enough) and start making rattling thumpy noises and Cokes would start tumbling down, usually one or at best two would fall down the chute. I was fortunate enough to be present when the poor machine went into its death throes. The familiar rattling thumpy noises started and a Coke fell down, then another, then another, then another, then another and on and on til the machine emptied itself. It then began to start smoking and making a hissing sound. :eek: Then it just stopped making noises. It died. Next day we got one of them new fangled machines with 10 ounce Cokes and Tab (shudder!) in it. No more free little Cokes. It was a sad day. We said goodbye to old Coke machine and gave it a proper eulogy though. It was only proper and fitting to do so.
Way back in middle school, it was common knowledge that if you flicked a quarter into on of the vending machines at high speeds, it would occasionally read your $0.25 as $2.50. Then all you had to do was buy the honeybun you wanted and receive like $2.00 back in change. Awesome.