strange things are afoot at the circle k

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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.

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[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

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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?