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Article #54Re: MetroCard Vending Machine Ate My Credit Card
From: Frederick Shorts
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:00
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 12:00
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vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
>
> Today I used one of those credit-card-only machines to refil metrocard.
> (Dipped my credit card in plenty of cash-too machines before, tho.)
> It complained it didn't read my card.
> So somehow I pushed my card all the way in.
> And it wouldn't come out.
> Tried snagging it out with some cardboard but it went further in.
> (I wish I had those thin tweezers that come with some pocket knives.)
> Token clerk gave me 212-metrocard number to call.
> When I called all I got was recording.
> So I cancelled the credit card.
> Got my metrocard back, tho!
This reminds of the time I was in SF for a gay wedding. I thought I'd
try the BART. Big fucking mistake! First I started feeding Franklins
to one of the ticket machines and it kept spitting them out. So I
went to another one and it finally gave me a ticket but no fucking change!
Bloody technology. Its a good fucking thing buttplugs are so simple.
That how things should be!
>
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