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For the old folks on SW - - did you ever file down plastic Bingo chips to use as dimes in order to steal from one of these?

Some of these are 25¢ dispensers but way back in time, 🤭, there were ones of the 10¢ variety, too.

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meggie · F Best Comment
I didn't but years ago we had one of those machines in our office. You put 20p in and got about 4 or 5 chocolate buttons. One colleage asked me to hold the tilted machine at an angle while she put in her 20p and thumped the top. She got an extra large serving. When the supply man came out to empty the machine of coins and refill it he was swearing, as someone had deposited washers and foreign coins. He carted the machine off!!!
@meggie

You b(&$%ed crooks!
meggie · F
@rinkydinkydoink there was no money made on that machine

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Omg 😭 I haven't seen anything like this since 90s. The nostalgia is hitting hard. Hey...I'm not even that old.. 🥲
@CrazyMusicLover

To me you're still a kid (I meant that in a good way)
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@rinkydinkydoink I still feel like a kid. 😂
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@jshm2

This was in the late 1950s and those translucent green discs - slightly filed down - worked swell thank you very much 👍🏻
WormMan · 56-60, M
No, but I remember grounding the handset of a payphone with a paperclip to make free phone calls.
WormMan · 56-60, M
@rinkydinkydoink [media=https://youtu.be/o5b5GWDqYrk]
@WormMan

Amazing, really.

But, you know, when he picked up that tab I recalled sometimes seeing coins around many payphones (not many but sometimes two or three) laying on the ground at some of the busier corners.
WormMan · 56-60, M
@rinkydinkydoink I remember going through a toll booth with out any money, stopping opening the door and there were quarters all over the ground. picked one up and threw it in the basket and drove on.
@MsSwan

You banged your cap gun strips with rocks on the sidewalk so I'm having fun seeing you with my mind's eye doing that :D
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
Nope, never even heard of that.
@WillaKissing

It was fun - while it lasted, that is. The trick was not to pull off the scam at the same store day after day :D

 
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