You know what hasn't gotten attention that deserves it? The dollar feeder on vending machines. Their technology has progressed a long way. Remember when you were a kid and you had to starch your dollar so that it would be crisp enough to be accepted by the machine to give you your Crystal Pepsi? If it found even a single wrinkle, your hopes would be dashed more quickly than the machine could say "Mmmuuurrrzzzhhh." You would unfold the corners, but still nothing. You wouldn't even care about the change at this point, you just wanted a Mountain Dew more than anything. There was always hope, though! Of course! You flatten it out on the side of the machine! This is one of those things like blowing into the Nintendo cartridges that renew hope in the eyes of the late 80s/early 90s child of achieving the ultimate goal of Mello Yello or Basewars that was really arbitrary when all is said and done.
When was the last time you had to do that? I'll bet you can't remember, because of the progress of vending machine dollar feeder engineering. Nowadays, when you put in a dollar, that damn thing takes it. It doesn't really give you change anymore, because Coke costs $1, they don't make Crystal Pepsi, and if they did, it would cost $1, too. Really, I expect that the increase in soda prices is driven by the investment in vending machine dollar feeder research. I don't really mind, though, because that is what I call results. If all technology progressed that successfully, we'd all be flying to work passing George Jetson while our house is cleaned by Rosie. It might be expensive, but it wouldn't have to be very crisp.
1 comment:
interesting observation. i, too, commend the dollar-accepting technologeers. bravo.
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