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- From: dab@ism.isc.com (David A. Butterfield)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Vending Machines
- Date: 30 Jul 1992 22:51:46 GMT
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- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <159rq2INN19l@smaug.West.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Jul30.210556.9542@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul30.210556.9542@spool.cs.wisc.edu> slv@camembert.cs.wisc.edu (Scott L. Vandenberg) writes:
- >Vending machine peeves have been welling up inside me for the last
- >few months and now they've reached critical mass.
-
- Our BDVM has two sections, one for candy and chips (no, not French (Belgian)
- fries -- potato (potatoe) chips), and one for soft drinks. The soft drink
- cans hide behind opaque pieces of plastic containing labels, each with the
- name of the supposedly concealed soft drink. Another feature of this machine
- is that it accepts both coins and dollar bills.
-
- Peeve: If you put in a dollar bill and then decide you don't want to
- buy anything after all, the machine refuses to return the bill.
-
- Peeve: There's no way to tell whether your favorite or even not-so-
- favorite soft drinks are *really* lurking behind those opaque plastic
- doors, since this BDVM has no "sold out" lights for them. If you put
- in money and your drink selection is sold out, it then beeps and
- flashes "make another selection" at you.
-
- DoublePeeve: The upshot is that this machine takes your money, and
- *then* tells you that it doesn't have your drink, and *then* refuses
- to return your money. At that point you can abandon your dollar or
- resort to buying a package of greasy junk food and maybe get some coins
- back.
-
- Grrrrrrr...
- --
- Only resort to the Rules when absolutely necessary.
-