I hate vending machines

Be pretty annoyed if this one didn't vend properly

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^ Lol

Our vending machines never get stocked up,so were all fighting fora mouldy sandwhich or a cheap brand of crisps.
 
andybtsn said:
Four fingers..

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Is it one of those ones that use a spinning spiral corkscrew mechanism thing (or are they all like that)? They're a right pain in the ****.
The staff here would wait for the guy that comes to fill up the machine and get refunds off him due to lost monies.
Don't know how they prove it, but he seemed to believe the angry mob that forms behind him when he appears. I'm surprised he doesnt come with security guard armour.
 
The other day a lad at work bought a bar of galaxy in the vending machine and it got stuck..

so he went to buy it again with his last 50p and pressed the wrong code and got skittles instead.

he didnt like skittles either so gave them to me.

bless him. hahaha
 
Never mind vending machines, it's the self-service checkouts in supermarkets that get to me, massive queues everywhere when I went in today so I thought I'll put aside my (rational and totally justified) hatred of the things to save a bit of time. Did that work? Did it hell, I spent the first 5 minutes waiting for it to stop saying "unexpected item in the bagging area, please remove" - which would be fine except that there was nothing there whatsoever, there wasn't even a sodding bag sitting there. Then after the palaver of scanning, getting authorisation for buying a bottle of wine and all the rest it decides that it doesn't like my money. Progress? You can keep your @$^¬#*! progress.
 
PaulStat said:
You'd think in this day and age they could have invented a vending machine that doesn't get stuck when you're trying to get your afternoon kitkat.

:(

And yes I have rocked the machine, it won't budge
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You need me aronud, I always get stuff out thats stuck! I wunt dare pay and leave.. My mate got sumin stuck the other day too, nearly broke the machine trying to get his crisps.. :D

Run at it head first ;)
 
You won't hate vending machines when you're one of the last survivors in a nuclear holocaust and/or zombie infestation.
 
Haha I love vending machines. I always seem able to retrieve my stuck snack, and sometimes I get two because someone before me fell foul of the dreaded machine of vending. Am I a bad person?
 
semi-pro waster said:
Rant about self-service checkouts
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I feel your pain. At my local Tesco hen they first came out, they were 'manned' by the most annoying gay American bloke you could ever have the displeasure of meeting. If the damn thing did anything wrong, he'd come mincing over, make a massive hoo-har over it and tell you it's the best thing ever and to give it a chance. I still can't get the hang of them, the gay bloke is gone, and the other day I found 2 quid in one that someone had forgotten to pick up. I used the £2 to buy some beer to console myself after my ordeal of 'APPROVAL NEEDED' 8 times after scanning a load of beer.

I hate them.:mad:
 
I decided one day I will invent a vending machine that would have a "I don't care you only want exact change, I want to pay a quid for a snickers" button - because sometimes I just want a bar of chocolate THAT BAD, and I am not that bothered that the machine hasn't got enough 10ps in.

Rich
 
semi-pro waster said:
Never mind vending machines, it's the self-service checkouts in supermarkets that get to me, massive queues everywhere when I went in today so I thought I'll put aside my (rational and totally justified) hatred of the things to save a bit of time. Did that work? Did it hell, I spent the first 5 minutes waiting for it to stop saying "unexpected item in the bagging area, please remove" - which would be fine except that there was nothing there whatsoever, there wasn't even a sodding bag sitting there. Then after the palaver of scanning, getting authorisation for buying a bottle of wine and all the rest it decides that it doesn't like my money. Progress? You can keep your @$^¬#*! progress.
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I always use self service as its so much faster, and I've never ever had a problem.
 
I love the spring ones:

I come to the machine, there is one column left with produce. And a chunky kit-kat stuck a-skew half way back on another row.

So I type in the code for the last remaining obtainable product.

But in my haste to get some chocolaty goodness, I get the letter wrong, and the coil above the food starts to turn. It's the row with the kit-kat.

The machine turns for a bit, then goes: "A-DAK-DAK-DAK!"

The chunky is kit-kat shot forward, smashes into the glass and drops neatly into the dispenser, SCORE!

True story.
 
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