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>I still hadn't realised they might be fake, though. Yeah, I was the same until a machine failed and a colleague said that the coin might be fake. There is so

>I still hadn't realised they might be fake, though. Yeah, I was the same until a machine failed and a colleague said that the coin might be fake. There is something rather delicious in the fact that we're so used to machines and computers failing that the idea the coin could be wrong never entered our heads!

lostlogin 10y ago
True rage is having a machine reject your money for overpriced parking while you stand under one of those anti-loitering alarms.
- jessaustin 10y ago
  It would be even better had one received the money in question as change from such a machine...
  - wallacoloo 10y ago
    I was standing in front of two vending machines the other day: one for food, one for drink, and all I had was a $5 bill. I wanted food, but the food machine would only take $1s and coins. On the other hand, the drink machine took $5s. So I put my money in the drink machine and hit the coin return. Nothing happened. I tried a few times and figured the coin return was broken or that it was out of coins. The only thing in the machine was soda, which I can't drink if I don't want to trigger my acid reflux. But I bought one anyway since otherwise my money was "wasted", thinking I'd give the soda to a friend later. Of course, once I bought the soda, the machine spat out all my change: 3 quarters and 2 dollar coins - now I finally had coins that I could buy food with. Naturally, the food machine didn't accept dollar coins. Most machines here don't, so no food for me.
    - tempestn 10y ago
      The food machine accepted coins and $1 bills, but not $1 coins or other bills? It almost sounds intentionally designed to be as difficult to use as possible. (I realize the $1 coin is larger and newer, and accepting larger denomination bills would mean dispensing more change, but still.)
      - jessaustin 10y ago
        USPS vending machines are well-known as the main non-bank source of $1 coins. (E.g. insert a $10 bill for $7 worth of stamps, and get 3x $1 coins back.) IIRC, a long time ago they didn't actually take these coins as payment in the first place...
  - lostlogin 10y ago
    I want with a guy who had fake money come out an ATM in the middle of Cusco, Peru. I offered to buy it off him as a souvenir, and offered about half face value. I was out bid by 2 others and in the end he decided to keep it as a souvenir.
    - LaikaF 10y ago
      That was pretty common in Peru when I visited. Or shop keepers giving it back as change.

lostlogin 10y ago

True rage is having a machine reject your money for overpriced parking while you stand under one of those anti-loitering alarms.

jessaustin 10y ago
It would be even better had one received the money in question as change from such a machine...
- wallacoloo 10y ago
  I was standing in front of two vending machines the other day: one for food, one for drink, and all I had was a $5 bill. I wanted food, but the food machine would only take $1s and coins. On the other hand, the drink machine took $5s. So I put my money in the drink machine and hit the coin return. Nothing happened. I tried a few times and figured the coin return was broken or that it was out of coins. The only thing in the machine was soda, which I can't drink if I don't want to trigger my acid reflux. But I bought one anyway since otherwise my money was "wasted", thinking I'd give the soda to a friend later. Of course, once I bought the soda, the machine spat out all my change: 3 quarters and 2 dollar coins - now I finally had coins that I could buy food with. Naturally, the food machine didn't accept dollar coins. Most machines here don't, so no food for me.
  - tempestn 10y ago
    The food machine accepted coins and $1 bills, but not $1 coins or other bills? It almost sounds intentionally designed to be as difficult to use as possible. (I realize the $1 coin is larger and newer, and accepting larger denomination bills would mean dispensing more change, but still.)
    - jessaustin 10y ago
      USPS vending machines are well-known as the main non-bank source of $1 coins. (E.g. insert a $10 bill for $7 worth of stamps, and get 3x $1 coins back.) IIRC, a long time ago they didn't actually take these coins as payment in the first place...
- lostlogin 10y ago
  I want with a guy who had fake money come out an ATM in the middle of Cusco, Peru. I offered to buy it off him as a souvenir, and offered about half face value. I was out bid by 2 others and in the end he decided to keep it as a souvenir.
  - LaikaF 10y ago
    That was pretty common in Peru when I visited. Or shop keepers giving it back as change.