Cadbury's machines on the tube
Based on other replies of erm, pretty much cons, I feel moved to post my own from the teenage MademoiselleDave years..

Does anyone else remember when they first introduced the Cadbury's vending machines on the tube?
Chocolate! Available! To buy! Underground!!
Fuck yes.

I can't remember who taught me this but I would love to give my heartfelt thanks.

Often, posted besides the Cadbury's machine was a public telephone.
Telephones! From which to have conversations! Underground! Mind-blowing!

Many a happy day was spent phoning the freephone number listed on the front of the Cadbury's machine, providing the machine reference number (handily listed on said machine) and complaining it ate my shiny new one pound coin.

A few days after the phone calls, absolutely no word of a lie, they would send me a pound coin selotaped to a compliment slip.

I'm sure whoever was in the charge of the complaints MUST have been wise to my con but damnit, those little pound coins meant the world to me.

I am forever in debt to you, mystery benefactor. Your donations changed my formative years (I *think* for the better!)
( MademoiselleDave is drunk and on the internet again on, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 23:57, 8 replies)

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can go to prison for that

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 0:06, closed)

Oh.
bugger.
( MademoiselleDave is drunk and on the internet again on, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 0:11, closed)

I don't make the rules

(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 0:15, closed)

Could you point me in the direction of the person who does?
I'd like to write a strongly-worded letter of complaint.
From prison.
( MademoiselleDave is drunk and on the internet again on, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 0:16, closed)

this man is your only hope
(The Cat Hater punch a cow for the planet, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 0:21, closed)

every time i think of those things
they remind me of that bloke in american werewolf in london
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 0:06, closed)

I'm normally unlucky with vending machines
but with these buggers, I hit jackpot every time.
Either I got a free vend, found a pound in the coin tray (once found three shiny gold beer tokens) but normally got two lovely bars of chocolate.
Shame my luck doesn't extend beyond these machines. And only applied if the machine was on a tube platform.
(GingerIrishTosser isn't dead yet., Sat 4 Sep 2010, 7:06, closed)

Always go for the "coin bin" lanes on toll-bridges
Often goodies are to be had in the change tray below. £1.20 is my record so far.
( eXOBeX, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 18:17, closed)