How to get paid for buying a soda
I went to our office soda machine with $1.75 in quarters to buy myself an iced tea. When I got there, I inserted a dollar bill instead, opting to save most of the quarters. The sodas cost $1.35 though, so I still needed to use two. I popped in one, and started to insert the other when I noticed that the first had not been recognized. I looked in the slot and the quarter was just hanging out right inside the slot. So I tried to use the second quarter to push in the first, and ended up with both quarters gone in and not recognized by the machine. I noticed a little old lady standing beside me, waiting her turn, so I pulled the latch to get my money back. 4 quarters spilled out of the change holder-- the dollar bill I had inserted first. "It ate my quarters" I told the lady, but she seemed disinterested. She had two dollar bills, so I stood aside and watched as she got herself a Pepsi, told me thank you and went on her way. While waiting, I noticed a coin stop the fridge beside the machine, so I picked it up once she'd left. I now had one quarter back, but since I only had one dollar bill left in my wallet and a pocket full of quarters I now knew would not go in the machine, I contemplated my next move.
My next move was to bang the palm of my hand against the machine's coin area. A jingle, and out popped a Canadian quarter and a nickel. "These aren't even mine," I muttered to myself, then pocketed them and banged the machine again. Two dimes and four quarters spilled out with a jangle. I picked them up, looked in the coin slot, and twisted the change return latch. Two more nickels and my two quarters spilled out into the coin holder. So, from the look of it, some doofus had tried to use a Canadian quarter in the machine, clogged it up, and proceeded to insert the whole $1.35 of their soda into the machine before leaving in frustration. I'd even wager that they ditched their last quarter on top of the fridge in disgust. Using the nickels and dimes (and NOT the Canadian quarter), I bought myself an Iced Tea and walked back to my computer with a pocket full of quarters.
Thank you, dumb person, wherever you are, for the free drink.
My next move was to bang the palm of my hand against the machine's coin area. A jingle, and out popped a Canadian quarter and a nickel. "These aren't even mine," I muttered to myself, then pocketed them and banged the machine again. Two dimes and four quarters spilled out with a jangle. I picked them up, looked in the coin slot, and twisted the change return latch. Two more nickels and my two quarters spilled out into the coin holder. So, from the look of it, some doofus had tried to use a Canadian quarter in the machine, clogged it up, and proceeded to insert the whole $1.35 of their soda into the machine before leaving in frustration. I'd even wager that they ditched their last quarter on top of the fridge in disgust. Using the nickels and dimes (and NOT the Canadian quarter), I bought myself an Iced Tea and walked back to my computer with a pocket full of quarters.
Thank you, dumb person, wherever you are, for the free drink.