Astrid’s Calamitous Christmas Caper – page 13
I mean, if you think about it, a person who makes a living busting criminal organizations probably WOULD know a bit more about how to run these things than the people actually running these things. Or, at the very least, how NOT to.
Anyway, I feel like I’m missing some kind of clever reference to Layla that should go here, but I’ve been up for around a whole day before queuing this up (it’s amazing how quickly a page buffer disintegrates when your comic updates every day) , so I’ll leave that to the comment section when this goes live.
@ Hansa Hansa: You didn’t find the smaller selection buttons on the right side of the machine? Well the Squishyfupplebutter employees tend to prefer to cook for themselves anyway, and the vending machine is effectively only used by the people on the Naughty List, so…
Whether tall or short, I’m more surprised that vending machines a million years int he future aren’t voice operated* and still require push buttons – I guess Alexa and Siri didn’t survive.
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*Except, of course, for May’s planet, where you have to pull a series of levers and then turn two hand cranks in sequence to get the clockwork vending machine to recognize your coin and spit out a product.
Since of course due to their love of overly complicated clockwork and steampunk, they conveniently chose not to look at how early vending machines worked with the entire mechanical mechanism triggered by the weight of the coin.
They had to stop using voice activated vending machines due to all the complaints about people’s orders getting messed up due to random passers by talking too loud. Not great for crowded areas.
It wasn’t so much the crowded areas, as the machines were eventually able to discern when they were being directly spoken to/at based on proximity and directionality, as it was that teenagers liked to come up right behind someone who had just paid and shout out the least appealing item in the machine and run off.