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Article #55Re: MetroCard Vending Machine Ate My Credit Card
From: Passerby
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:00
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:00
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I met the prettiest girl I ever saw in the computer lab in our university.
She could not read her 5.25" floppy(mind you it was 10 years ago). I was
able to diagnose the problem quickly enough - she managed to insert the
diskette in an opening BETWEEN two floppy drives!
"Frederick Shorts" <cypherpunk@nyc.rr.com.you.spam.me.you.die> wrote in
message news:4054494DERFF90366D@bartsucks.com...
> 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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>
>
> -$-
> Freddie 'fag' Shorts
>
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>
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