As we walked out the door, and down the stairs, and across the hall, and right up to that Coke machine, not one of us had any idea of the treachery that awaited inside the red monster.
Leigh wanted a Coke. And by Coke she meant Sprite. Now, Coke in Florida costs $1.25. And Leigh only had a dollar. Even though we checked under the carpet...and in the corner. So after some trouble, we got ourselves a few more twenty-five cent pieces and re-congregated before the ole' Coke machine.
One quarter, two quarter, three quarter, four...five quarter, six quarter...equals $1.50. Come on y'all, do the math. We had a little problem on our hands. You see, in her parched state, Leigh had been shoving those quarters in that slot like nobody's business. Yes, so violently was she shoving them in the slot that nobody even noticed that she had somehow managed to lodge two quarters in the little space between the little coin slot and the little roof of the coin slot. Those quarters were stuck like anything would be stuck when you try to shove an object into a space where it's not supposed to fit. Yep. Logic.
Well, Leigh and I stood around waiting for Ashley, who went upstairs to locate a tweezer apparatus. Leigh occupied her time by munchin' on some ice chips we found. Anyway, we figured we could tweeze those shiny varmints right out of their hole. So we tweezed. And tweezed. And tweezed some more. After what seemed like days and days, we dug those quarters right out of there.
Leigh immediately began to shove them back in the slot like nobody's business. Yes, so violently was she shoving them in the slot that nobody even noticed that the bum Coke machine didn't even work.
And Leigh never got her Coke. I mean Sprite.
You might be asking yourself what the moral of this story is. And I don't have an answer for you. Maybe you need to save your quarters. Maybe you need to stop being so addicted to Coke. Maybe you just need to start munchin' on some ice chips.
Whatever it is, I hope you've learned just how handy-dandy a good pair of tweezers can be.
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So good to read a blog post from you again :) I hope you will write here more frequently :)
I love your sense of humour ;)
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