Ka-Chuk to you too, sir!
I remember as a kid, when I used to go to the YMCA every summer for camp (and alternate Fridays for swim lessons during nursery school), the end of the day, we’d all hover around the snack machines, scrounging up any change we’d managed to save or find during our days.
Mind you, this is pretty much at the very early days of arcade games, so we didn’t have anything like that around, so this is basically what coins were for. Well, this and pay phones, and I had no one to call.
To a kid of that age in that time period… Well, maybe just to me… These machines were a bit of mechanical magic. Pop a coin, pull a lever or press a button, it knew which row to push from, which treat to drop. I know I was romanticizing it now, of course. This was back when you could still reach your arm up and grab gum off the bottom row for lord’s sake.
But, in my head, it was always closer to this.
