me: Time to wash my clothes. *puts clothes in only washer available in my building (there's a foot of snow on the ground preventing me from going anywhere else)*
washer: Insert $1.25
me: *inserts quarter, which clinks obviously in with the rest of the quarters*
washer *blinks* Insert $1.25
me: Lolwut? Well, I guess mistakes happen now and again. *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $1.00
me: *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $0.75
me: *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $0.50
me: *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $0.25
me: *inserts quarter*
washer: *blinks* Insert $1.25
me: WAAAAAT! *bangs washer with foot*
washer: Insert $0.50
me: ... what? *inserts yet another quarter*
washer: *blinks* Insert $1.25
me: FUCK YO- oh, god dammit, the thing must have a loose connection. *reaches behind washer, pulls plug, reattaches it firmly*
washer: *blinks* Insert $1.25
me: Sigh, here we go again. *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $1.00
me: *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $0.75
me: *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $0.50
me: *inserts quarter*
washer: Insert $0.25
me: Phew. *inserts quarter*
washer: *blinks* Insert $1.25
me: *screams and starts kicking washer violently*
apartment staff guy: What the hell are you doing?!
me: *startled* Oh, the damn thing keeps eating my money, and it won't wash my clothes!
apartment staff guy: Well, if you're treating it like that of course it does! Here, lemme. *grabs my roll of quarters before I can react, and starts putting them in the laundry machine.*
washer: Insert $1.25, $1.00, $0.75, $0.50, $0.25, Select cycle.
apartment staff guy: *Pushes button, washer comes to life*
me: Huh, the thing kept resetting every time I put in $1.25...
apartment staff guy: Sure. *leaves*
washer: *stops, blinks* Insert $1.25
me: YYYYYEEEEEARGH! *starts kicking the shit out of washer again*
apartment staff guy: *hears me, comes back in*
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