Among other things I am in the process of doing my laundry. Yeah, I know, that ranks right up there with adventures in toenail clipping. So sue me.
We have a small laundry facility on the next street over from me that is owned by the park and is for park residents only. It's not much but it's a very short walk for me. I walked over, tossed in three loads to wash, and walked back home to enjoy a nice cold beer and some carport conversation with my nieighbor who happened by on her bicycle just as I was settling into my favorite carport chair.
When I returned to the laundry building to move my wash to the driers I placed the needed quarters into the first drier and started it up with no problem. The second one seemed to have decided to take the day off. I inserted the money, worked the coin slide, and pressed the "start" switch. Nothing. It just sat there and did nothing at all. I swore at it, pressed the start button repeatedly, and it just sat there calmly doing nothing at all. Damn!
I hopped on my bike and rode down to the manager's place and informed him of the mechanized robbery that had just taken place. He sat his beer down and said he'd "take a look at it".
We met back at the laundry building. he walked in, jiggled the coin slot a bit, and pressed the start button. The damn thing fired right up like nothing was wrong and it hadn't just five minutes prior tried to rob me of $1.25. Naturally the manager gave me one of those "you're a dumbass" looks and I can't really say as I blame him.
I thanked him while giving the machine a dirty look to which it refused to respond, and returned to my place to enjoy another cold beer and contemplate the eventual machine take over of the world.