strange things are afoot at the circle k

[spatch]

I just put a buck twenny-five into the Wheel O' Death vending machine in our break room.

I opened the little window and retrieved my bottle of juice product.

The vending machine display then flashed "WINNER" at me, and it gave me back my five quarters.




Ohhhh-kay, he intoned slowly, money in hand, while backing away from the crazy machine.

Comments

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

$1.25 for juice? I hope you got more than six oz. for your hard-earned moneys.

[spatch]

Fifteen POINT TWO fluid ounces of deliciousness! Yee-haw!

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

0.2 oz? That's over a teaspoon of grapefruity goodness! You weren't kidding about the extra drops, there.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

You're making me want delicious grapefruit sippage.

They took away our ICE CREAM ROBOT. You'd put in your 9 quarters and an elephant trunk-like tube would drop into the tank of your choice and grab your Dove Bar with suction. Then it would whip it into the chute that led to the tempering chamber. It would temper the ice cream for 5 seconds (I know not how), then spit it out for you to retrive and enjoy.

But it's gone.

[spatch]

There was one of those crazy robot vacuum ice cream machines at the roadside assistance job, though I'm not so sure there was a tempering chamber. But it was always fun to put in your money, start the machine through its paces, and say "No, wait, I wanted the ICE CREAM SANDWICH, get me the ICE CREAM SANDWICH INSTEAD" while it moved its cybernetic elephant trunk around.

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

The missus' work has an ICE CREAM SANDWICH machine in the break room, but it doesn't have the cybernetic trunk--just rows and rows of little spirally things. However, since said sandwich is only $0.75, I would be in some serious trouble were I to work there.

The dippin' dots machine at the movies has a trunk, but dippin' dots aren't ice cream at all.

Keith

[(Anonymous)]

ICE CREAM OF THE FUTURE.

Says so. Right on the cars.

Re: Keith

[(Anonymous)]

Dammit. CARTS.

Re: Keith

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

And here I was imagining something in the sixties-retro-futuristic mode that read "Ice cream of the future!" with a man with an fishbowl on his head and antennae coming out, smiling, holding a cup of Dippin' Dots, blissfully unaware that he will never manage to get his spoon through the fishbowl.

Re: Keith

[spatch]

Maybe he's wearing a FISHBOWL OF THE FUTURE that allows ice cream

Re: Keith

[fancycwabs.livejournal.com]

Silly. The ice cream would then drain out of the fishbowl, and then what would the fish swim in?

[haardvark.livejournal.com]

We had one of THOSE at oldjob too, and the two times I tried to use it, the suck-er failed in mid-convey and dropped my frozen treat back into the boxes below.

TWICE, for TWICE SAKE.

[revolution724.livejournal.com]

We have one of those in my building. It always reminds me of one of those arcade games where you try to manoever the claw to grab a teddy bear. Except you always win, and you always get ice cream! So much better!