Blog Number 159

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Today is a great day to be a sports fan.  Day 1 of March Madness is great.  One of these years I am just going to take the Thursday / Friday off for the first weekend of March Madness.  Not this year though (sigh).

I brought leftovers to work for lunch today.  They have microwave ovens in the cafeteria at my work so I made use of them today.  I had a $1 bill and a $5 bill in my wallet and the soft drinks in the cafeteria are $1.08 with tax.  I did not feel like breaking my $5 bill so after I was done heating my food I headed back upstairs to my cube.  There is a Pepsi machine in the same room where the coffee is located and it is only $1 so I decided to buy my drink there.  I put in my $1 and pressed the button for my selection.  It was sold out so I tried another choice and it was sold out too.  The only other choices were water or diet so I hit the return button and it spit out 4 coins.  No problem I think, I will just find another machine.  But, the 4 coins were actually 3 quarters and a nickel.  So I was down a net 20 cents.

I was not particularly upset.  Over the years I think I am ahead money on these kind of machines.  Though I am not keeping track (OK, I am), I think I am "up" overall.  I have gotten more than the correct amount of change more often than I was "short changed" over the years.  I do remember once in 7th grade paying for lunch and the change machine tied to the cash register spit out more than a dollar's worth of change.  As I recall, I did not discover this until I was through the line and not able to get back to the cashier due to the lunch time crowd.  I have no idea why I remember this, it is an insignificant moment in my life, but I still remember it.  Video games, coke machines, snack machines, you name it, I think I get the better end of the deal when it comes to incorrect change more often than not.  I probably do better with coke machines than most people do on slot machines.

So anyway, I just went back to the cubicle  and got my coffee mug and poured some free coffee.  Well I am going to go back to watching college basketball.  Until next time...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon