First you spot the Teetering Treat.
It’s the candy bar hanging onto the metal spirals for dear life, just sitting there after giving the last customer the ol’ For Sale Fail and just teasing them instead of delivering the goods. And instead of spending another dollar to test their luck, they decided to walk away. Hey, we’ve all been there too, so now it’s time for some good ol’ fashioned Vending Machine Karma, also known as Chocolate Justice.
So just drop your money in, push the buttons, and listen for that sweet thump-thump of two treats dropping into the Sugar Basin at once. Now just push back the awkwardly heavy door and swipe a paw in there to scoop up your treasures. Kiss the vending machine plastic window, hold your two treats up to the sky in both hands, and then flee the scene.
It’s snacking time.
Yes, that free treat is great because, first of all, now’s your chance to play Santa to an unsuspecting co-worker. Got someone who could use a Kit-Kat Fix? Of course you do. So share the wealth and give yourself a break together. It’s Christmas at the office again.
Secondly, no matter how much you try, you can’t return the free snack. No, there’s no wedging your hand back up there and throwing it back into its Metal Spiral Jail Cell. So ditch the guilt and smile back at the Gods of Snacking for they have smiled down upon you.
And you deserve it.
AWESOME!
30 Comments
January 2, 2009 at 12:49 am
Oh, hell yes.
That is all.
January 2, 2009 at 4:26 am
Yes indeed
January 2, 2009 at 7:12 am
Holy shit, ever had that happen to you, except at first it seemed like the candy was stuck?
Best two brownies I’ve ever had.
January 2, 2009 at 10:42 am
I wonder if anyone has done a scientific study to determine if solidly wrapped candy bars are more or less prone to For Sale Fail than, say, puffy bags of potato chips or pretzels. I would guess puffy bags experience a higher rate of failure. Thoughts, anyone?
March 27, 2009 at 2:10 pm
It seems like the puffy bags do get stuck more easily, at least in my experience. But whatever the snack, if it’s caught in the metal spiral just wrong, it gets shifted juuuuust to the very edge and then STAYS THERE. That is SO annoying!
January 2, 2009 at 4:19 pm
That happened to me and my friend, like 3 times… in a row!
I was amazed.
January 2, 2009 at 8:00 pm
A couple months ago, I borrowed a dollar from a friend in class to get something from the vending machine. The machine gave me two and he told me I didn’t even have to pay him back if I gave him the extra one! THAT is awesome!
January 2, 2009 at 8:40 pm
I had something similar happen to me with a pop vending machine. About 6 came out for me!
January 3, 2009 at 2:03 am
Durring class, some kid found out the way to trick the sobe drink machine, right before first lunch.
by putting a nickel in, and while the nickel is being placed, pressing 123, it dispensed enough drinks for the class of 35 plus the teacher.
AWESOME!
January 3, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Oh my gosh – best thing EVER! One time I even got two ice creams that were stuck together in those ice cream vending machines that use the plastic tube to suck the ice cream up.
Awesome!
January 3, 2009 at 4:08 pm
this makes up for the times when your item gets stuck on the way down!
January 4, 2009 at 12:24 am
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January 4, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Love it!
At campus, our vending machines NEVER fail to give two packs of Mike & Ikes, I think it’s the way they are packed in a loose bag or something.
I can almost guarantee the loose ones have a better chance of falling out than the chocolate bars do.
January 9, 2009 at 7:07 pm
This deserves to be higher up the list.
January 10, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Love it when this happens :D especially whilst at work, makes me day. But then vending machines do seem to make you pay, when they get your money, but your item gets stuck..and no matter how much you try and shake the machine it doesn’t fall down :( bad times :(
January 29, 2009 at 9:36 am
I remember the times when I got not even one. The two is rare.
February 1, 2009 at 1:28 pm
The sensors in the work’s soda machine is broken, so it never knows when it’s sold out of product. There’s been many an overnight shift where I threw away $2 on an energy drink I REALLY needed, but the machine only happily dispensed air. Bummer.
I’ve gotten a few doubles out of the Snackster right next to it, though. And once when I thought I got burned on a failed delivery, I was surprised to learn my GF got my snack as a double later that day, and I was able to enjoy a delayed beef-n-cheddar.
But the biggest score ever was the hotel soda machine when I was a kid. Much like every kid who checks for change in every coin return slot, we also randomly pressed those soda buttons. That day, Sprite was raining from the slot like free candy-water. Once we drained that thing, we did the dutiful thing and told the management that the machine was acting up…
And then we had Sprite. A lot.
February 5, 2009 at 12:18 am
My baby sister’s college decided to be awesome. For some reason the Vending Machine guy forgot to reset his code, and everything came out for free. Just push in a code and out it came. She was the first to discover it she tried to keep it to a low profile but one of her friends blabbed. After she and her friends grabbed their fill of candy, sunchips, and cookies. they headed back to their room to count the stach. Not even 10 minutes later the fully stocked machine was stripped of everything except diet winterfresh.
March 22, 2009 at 4:08 pm
At uni there used to be a vending machine (not a spirally one, it was all hidden inside) that constantly gave out random amounts of chocolate… It was like a lottery where you might get one chocolate bar, or you might get five! Worked especially well with Wispa bars for some reason. No idea what was wrong with it, but nobody told anyone to fix it so it gave me LOADS of free stuff for 3 years. AWESOME.
March 26, 2009 at 11:24 am
I wont buy from a vending machine unless I spot a potential double dropper.
March 27, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Aw, HELL yeah! I love it when this happens.
March 27, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Happened to me yesterday! 2 butterfingers sucka.
May 6, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I rate this one in my personal top 100. It always makes my day.
May 13, 2009 at 7:08 pm
I used to work at a theatre… It was amazing those long nights when the soda machine would give me 2 for 1 Mountain Dews… They really got me through the night!
August 23, 2009 at 6:00 am
I know this one vending machine at my school that gives two Starbucks coffees every time :D
November 26, 2009 at 5:54 pm
This happened to me somewhere I worked. There wasn’t even anything teetering, it just randomly spat out two butterfingers. Manna from heaven!
December 23, 2009 at 4:55 pm
I have to say that after a long day at work, whenever I am able to get that double snack – it just brightens my step for the rest of the day. I’m not sure if it is because I actually get to eat something more than I had thought I would, or if I feel like God is just giving me a boost for the rest of the day. Either way, it is clearly awesome.
January 17, 2010 at 2:00 am
One time when I was younger, there was a lone vending machine in a supermarket, and I was one of those kids who likes pressing buttons for fun. I pressed a button and ended up getting free soda.
AWESOME!
January 20, 2010 at 4:50 pm
another awesome thing, when the vending machine takes your last crappy wilted crumply dollar!
February 3, 2010 at 11:39 am
Juhu endlich habe bei dir hier in dem Artikel genau das gefunden was ich gesucht habe. Ich dachte schon das ich im Internet nichts mehr finde und bin fast verzweifelt. Aber jetzt bin ich erst mal gluecklich vielen dank noch einmal.