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Article #56Re: MetroCard Vending Machine Ate My Credit Card
From: Frederick Shorts
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 03:28
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 03:28
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Passerby wrote:
>
> 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!
LOL!!! Yeah, women can be that dumb! Butt that wasn't my problem. The
machine just couldn't read the notes whichever way I fed them in.
What BART really needs is people at windows selling tickets to tourists
who just got into town and don't know the ropes.
They ought to clean up the carriages too. They stink worse than the
ones in NY!
>
> "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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> > > BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian
> > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
> > > ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully
> disclaimed.}---
> > > [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive
> guards]
> > > [Health Reform means abolishing FDR's insurance tax exemption]
> > > [To stop SPAM, Charge net-postage] [Abolish 16th (Inc Tx) Amendment]
> >
> >
> > -$-
> > Freddie 'fag' Shorts
> >
> > I'm loud and I'm proud. I'm gay and I like it that way!
> > I support Gay Pride! The Ramrod rocks!
> >
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> >
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> >
---
Freddie 'fag' Shorts
I'm loud and I'm proud. I'm gay and I like it that way!
I support Gay Pride! The Ramrod rocks! Go Kerry!
Wanna hire me for web site development? I'm way under-employed!
Contact me by email (mailto:cypherpunk@nyc.rr.com) or mail me at
FS Newssite Inc.
101 West 23rd St. Suite 2237, New York, NY, 10011
Check out my current web sites -
http://www.orwellian.org
http://www.miscstuff.org
http://home.nyc.rr.com/cypherpunk/
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