NotNotMike@programming.dev to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoThis needs to be a well-defined psychological principle. I do stuff like this all the timeprogramming.devimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up11.22Karrow-down120file-text
arrow-up11.2Karrow-down1imageThis needs to be a well-defined psychological principle. I do stuff like this all the timeprogramming.devNotNotMike@programming.dev to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSuperDuper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up79·1 year agoWhen I was a kid I pressed the “return coin” button on a vending machine at a rest stop and 50¢ came out. Gotta check every single vending machine now.
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoMy dad said when they were kids they’d check the payphones for coins in the change slot, so sometimes kids would spit in them to fuck w people
minus-squareSuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoHave you found many?
minus-squareyokonzo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·1 year agoI do this too, and yeah you’d be surprised how many times there’s money in the coin slot
minus-squareIndiBrony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoCan confirm. Coin slot returns saved me from bankruptcy! Sadly much less common now with the advent of contactless card payments.
minus-squareglibg10b@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoTechnically, any amount of money would save you from bankruptcy
minus-squareLesserAbe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIf you owed $1k then $1 wouldn’t save you
minus-squareStantana@lemmy.sambands.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoBut of you only had $999 and had to cone up with $1000 by the end of the day…
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoThis isn’t 1980s Hollywood rich guy poor guy rules.
When I was a kid I pressed the “return coin” button on a vending machine at a rest stop and 50¢ came out. Gotta check every single vending machine now.
My dad said when they were kids they’d check the payphones for coins in the change slot, so sometimes kids would spit in them to fuck w people
Have you found many?
I do this too, and yeah you’d be surprised how many times there’s money in the coin slot
Can confirm. Coin slot returns saved me from bankruptcy! Sadly much less common now with the advent of contactless card payments.
Technically, any amount of money would save you from bankruptcy
If you owed $1k then $1 wouldn’t save you
But of you only had $999 and had to cone up with $1000 by the end of the day…
This isn’t 1980s Hollywood rich guy poor guy rules.