I might be the most dysfunctional person on the planet

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AnnieAnn
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06 Mar 2020, 1:48 pm

I had the same type thing happen at the gas pump. A simple task became difficult. I was out of state and went to put gas in my car. All the buttons that I am familiar with were all very differently arranged and I just went blank. Really started panicking and had to pull it together. It took me a while but I got in done. It doesn't take much of being out of my routine to throw me off.



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07 Mar 2020, 10:47 am

I'm terrible with that kind of thing as well, particularly when people are standing behind me, so close that they are breathing down my neck.



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09 Mar 2020, 3:56 pm

My boyfriend has always had extreme difficulty with multiple-choice tests using scantrons. He often ends up filling in bubbles in the wrong row.


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09 Mar 2020, 4:17 pm

jimmy m wrote:
I would tend not to judge you by your success with vending machines. They are wild beast and often have a will of their own.

Most times they eat your money and give you no product in return. Then you have to track down the vender to get your money back. Sometimes the product falls into a region inside the machine rather than in the bin for removal. Then you try and shake the machine or reach your inverted hand into the beast.

I remember one time when I purchase an item and the change part of the machine misfunctioned and started ejecting nickels like a slot machine, one after another, until it filled the change cup and began to spill out on the floor. I think I landed up with $20 of nickels. Then I had to track down the vendor in order to return the change.

And then there was the time when I was in the hot desert and wanted a cold coke. I put in my quarters and a cold can of coke popped out and a small kitten. I thought it was funny. So I put in a couple more quarters and sure enough out popped another cold can of coke and another kitten.

Like I say vending machines are just plain weird!


pleease direct me to such a vending devise, i wants kittens that come from vending machines , coke cola optional .


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11 Mar 2020, 3:54 pm

Make mine a Siamese, if you please!



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13 Mar 2020, 6:18 pm

KevinLA wrote:
I get these thing can happen to anyone. The biggest point of my post was that I took 10 seconds to try and avoid the problem and it still occurred.

Maybe it was a visual scanning problem? There are so many items in these vending machines that I have trouble matching the price to the item as well, and the amount of time you take doesn't necessarily help if there are too many details visually overwhelming you.



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13 Mar 2020, 8:14 pm

uhm. 10 seconds.... actually have stood in front of one of those machines in public and after 2 mins gave up and walked away from it.. just could not bear getting ripped off again .. decided the vending machines owner just did not care enough to make the selections clear enough to configure..the buttons, so they were clear to the user. This has happened on more than one occassion and have gotten wrong thing , just one too many times.. Completely relate to this thread ...


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