Most recently: me consuming TGIFriday's Potato Skins Snack Chips. I had a craving so I fished out 4 quarters from my wallet, since I didn't have any dollar bills, and head to the vending machine. I peer in and search for my much wanted snack. They aren't there. I am sad. I walk back to my cube (most likely pouting) and one of my co-workers tells me, what I was already contemplating, "just go to a different floor", so I go down a floor. Jackpot! Potato Skins galore on the 5th floor.
I put in a quarter, then another, third one clangs, and the fourth - the only one standing between me and my sweet snack goes right through and lands in the change dispenser. Are you kidding me? I pick it up and try it again. No luck. I look it over, ready to blame Canada. I can't - it's American. What the...So, I push the coin return and try again. The first 3 go in, no problem. The fourth one...spits out. So, I decide I want them bad enough, I will go back to my desk and get a couple other quarters to try.
I huff it back and pop in the 3 originally accepted quarters and a new guy. No luck - it spits out. Sooooo apparently this dumb machine has a 75 cent limit. Too bad nothing cost less than a buck. I'm ready to give up but now I'm hungry and want the freakin chips more than ever. I decide to try one more floor - I turn the corner thinking nothing can go wrong now, I have plenty of good quarters to choose from - and I end up right back where I started, at a vending machine, probably more than willing to take 100 quarters if I had them, but there are no Potato Skins to be found. I was sad. And Hungry. And out of patience. I walked back to my desk empty handed. Maybe next week...
