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casavant
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Some of you may remember my last post when I had the Minute Maid machine dump nine bottles of grapefruit juice down the chute:
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227581
Well, another small victory happened with my parking space today. I was cutting it close to the wire on getting to work on time, so I used the pay parking that's located close by. It sucks to pay, but it was 1:45 and after 5pm you can park for free, so it would only cost me two or three bucks and I really needed to be to work on time. Just as I was pulling into a parking space, this dude walked up and said that he had just paid his spot up until 2:30, but he was leaving so I could have it if I wanted. He gave me the receipt. Hell yeah. I said thanks, parked, and walked to the library. Well, at 3:30 I finally got a chance to go out there and feed more money into the thing. Luckily, I hadn't been ticketed yet; they're usually pretty quick about that around here. So I went to the machine and started punching in my space number, and a nickel fell into the coin return. Cool. So I fed the nickel back into the machine, but I didn't hear it go down. What the fuck? So I gave the machine a nice firm palm-heel, and ka-ching!...about $2, mostly in quarters, fell into the coin return. I scooped them out, fed the machine (which started to work again), and was on my way with a smile on my face.
I think the main thing to be learned from this story is Never be afraid to knock the living crap out of a machine. Good things often come of it.
http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227581
Well, another small victory happened with my parking space today. I was cutting it close to the wire on getting to work on time, so I used the pay parking that's located close by. It sucks to pay, but it was 1:45 and after 5pm you can park for free, so it would only cost me two or three bucks and I really needed to be to work on time. Just as I was pulling into a parking space, this dude walked up and said that he had just paid his spot up until 2:30, but he was leaving so I could have it if I wanted. He gave me the receipt. Hell yeah. I said thanks, parked, and walked to the library. Well, at 3:30 I finally got a chance to go out there and feed more money into the thing. Luckily, I hadn't been ticketed yet; they're usually pretty quick about that around here. So I went to the machine and started punching in my space number, and a nickel fell into the coin return. Cool. So I fed the nickel back into the machine, but I didn't hear it go down. What the fuck? So I gave the machine a nice firm palm-heel, and ka-ching!...about $2, mostly in quarters, fell into the coin return. I scooped them out, fed the machine (which started to work again), and was on my way with a smile on my face.
I think the main thing to be learned from this story is Never be afraid to knock the living crap out of a machine. Good things often come of it.
