Given the fairly poor track record of my preferences winning the weekly poll, I guess I need to start campaigning.
As passionately as I hate gratuituous beeping, I can't tell from your description if the behavior you describe is part of the designed operation of the machine, caused because the machine is broken, or because of some exceptional condition you weren't aware of. The designer only deserves honors in the first case. If the machine is broken, the manager of the gas station only deserves honors if it's been going on long enough that he could have fixed it but hasn't bothered.
On the other hand, fast food sellers who won't listen to the customers should take up new careers as fertilizer. If they're otherwise well behaved they might be highly evolved enough to aspire to cat food.
And one final shot -- the idea that paying less money than the "regular price" for something you wouldn't have bought in the first place constitutes saving money deserves a society wide special award.
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As passionately as I hate gratuituous beeping, I can't tell from your description if the behavior you describe is part of the designed operation of the machine, caused because the machine is broken, or because of some exceptional condition you weren't aware of. The designer only deserves honors in the first case. If the machine is broken, the manager of the gas station only deserves honors if it's been going on long enough that he could have fixed it but hasn't bothered.
On the other hand, fast food sellers who won't listen to the customers should take up new careers as fertilizer. If they're otherwise well behaved they might be highly evolved enough to aspire to cat food.
And one final shot -- the idea that paying less money than the "regular price" for something you wouldn't have bought in the first place constitutes saving money deserves a society wide special award.