Anxiety said:

:goodshudder:

I am sooooo going to find that brick (in the treasure hunt I'm participating in) taking my $1,000 prize and buying out the store of Little Debbie treats...

what's your address again Anx?




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Anxiety said:

maybe she is one of our alien overloards, studying the human response to food lures.



ps: white cheddar cheezits

by the way does anyone else love those tiny little pecan pies????

dang this thread anyway. now i want to rush downstairs and buy chips and chocolate from that nice pakistani fellow...

XxAxX said:

i was wondering who actually ate those.

Anxiety said:

believe me i know they aren't even close to the real thing. and yet.... they're surprisingly tasty.

CHIC0 said:

that's funny!!!

Anxiety said:

I sympathize. The snack machine outside my office suite door has been rejecting dollar bills for about a month now, and I usually don't carry coin change.

matt said:

oh, that sucks too.

i think what i need to do is create a counter-ritual for whenever this annoying synchronicity takes place (which, i swear, is EVERY DAY). like, whenever this happens, i should take it as a cue to write five stupid haiku. or something. and when i start looking forward to it happening, it won't happen anymore!

Anxiety said:

Well, the solution is to follow Canada's lead and replace the $1 paper note with a $1 coin. (We already have one, of course, but its use will be limited to vending and transit until we drop the paper dollar.) Small coins are more convenient for small transactions, and I submit that with inflation, $1 is now a "small transaction." (The soda machines in the hall sell bottles for $1 each.)

When the new dollar coin came out, I wrote to the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Indianapolis and basically said, "You've got one of your machines in my apartment building, and I'd just love to buy your delicious beverages, but it won't take my money." I also included instructions on how to make the machine accept dollar coins (flip a switch inside and, if necessary, widen the coin slot).

I never got a reply, but the next week, I found that the coin slot had been widened, and the machine was taking dollar coins. It's amazing what a company will do when you basically say, "I want to give you my money."

Graet Idea about the silver dollar. We actually have Half Dollars and a Susan B Anthony...Canada is AHEAD of the US on CERTAIN Issues..Plus I Like Their STYLE. I just bought a FREAKIN DATE NUT BREAD with Cranberries,White Raisins and Nuts ... DELICIOUS....

Anxiety said:

I hate when you go to the machine to satisfy a snack attack, and the vending machine person is filling the machine. This happened to me several times at this one place I worked at, but luckily, the vending machine guy saw the hunger in my eyes. I was able to buy a snack directly from him and give him the money, instead of having to wait until he was done, then make yet ANOTHER trip back.

It's funny that you should mention White Cheddar Cheese-Its, because the vending machine where I work has them too. I love those things, and had to fiercely tell myself, "No, you can't eat those, they are not good for you!"

But it can be annoying as hell when the vending person keeps putting something in the machine that you have a total distaste for. This other place I worked at, the idiot vending person kept putting pork rinds in the machine! I hate those nasty things, and it became obvious to me that everybody else did too, because the damn things were not selling! Finally, I had enough one day, and put a sticky note on the vending machine that read, "Please DO NOT pork rinds in the machine!" It did the trick, because the vending machine person never put pork rind in again.