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Article #57Re: MetroCard Vending Machine Ate My Credit Card
From: Stan de SD
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:49
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:49
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"Frederick Shorts" <cypherpunk@nyc.rr.com.bart> wrote in message
news:405522E2FRED5E8E560@ticket.com...
> 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!
Carriages? Either you're a Brit, or you're taking some form of horse-drawn
propulsion I'm not familiar with... ;O)
>
> >
> > "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!
> > >
> > > >
> > > > - = -
> > > > Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia'81+, Bio$trategist
> > > > BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian
> > > > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/vjp2/vasos.htm
> > > > ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully
> > disclaimed.}---
> > > > [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive
> > guards]
> > > > [Health Reform means abolishing FDR's insurance tax exemption]
> > > > [To stop SPAM, Charge net-postage] [Abolish 16th (Inc Tx)
Amendment]
> > >
> > >
> > > -$-
> > > 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!
> > >
> > > 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/
> > >
>
>
> ---
> 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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