Beer. In a vending machine.

[47of74]

I love Italy.

[liberal N proud]

1. We always had beer in the vending machine in college

[hunter]

2. When a sandwich just won't do for breakfast...

[cyberswede]

3. But it's in a CAN!

Ew!

How is Japanese beer?

[jakeXT]

5. A can is better than a plastic bottle /nt

[sharp_stick]

6. Really good beer can come in a can

http://www.newenglandbrewing.com/about.php

"Gandhibot" and "668 The Neighbor of the Beast" are two of my favorites

[Earth_First]

18. The top-rated beer in the world according to BeerAdvocate

is only available in a can.

I could name half a dozen quality microbrewed canned products.

[OriginalGeek]

4. I used to work for a wholesale wheel distributor

the boss had the key to the vending machine and would stock it with beer on inventory weekends.



I have no idea if our counts were even close but we didn't complain about working the weekend.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. I worked for a company that had beer in one of the vending machines too.

This was a manufacturer of fire trucks. One of the 3 soda machines was all beer, no matter which button you pushed for $.25 each. When the end of shift came along, you could drop a quarter or two and have a beer before you left.

When the salesmen would make a big sale, they would dump 3 or 4 rolls of quarters on the table in front of the machine at the end of the day!

This was 1977/early 78, but even back then you couldn't buy a 6 pack for $1.50

[OriginalGeek]

9. I can't remember if we had to pay

or if he just set the machine to dispense anything when the button was pushed - this would have been late 81, early 82 and I've had a few beers since then too...I was mostly a broke-ass teen then so I doubt I had to pay.

Hey I built ambulances for about a month one time - I had been laid off from a boat manufacturer and this was nearly the same job just putting interior cabinets into vans instead of boat hulls. But we all got laid off from them too as it turned out they just needed extra help for a big order and then got rid of us. Asses.

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. The company I worked for started off building Ambulances!

I suppose it doesn't matter anymore, so no need to be so secretive - it was "E-One" or Emergency One as it was known back then, located along I-75 in Ocala.

The original owner and his buddy built Ambulances and First Responder truck bodies in a garage!

Now they build a full line of Fire Apparatus, shipped all over the US as well as overseas;

http://www.e-one.com/

I worked for them as a Sheet Metal Shear operator, running a Cincinnati Shear that was 1/4" cold rolled steel capacity. Cut mostly aluminum sheet, both diamond plate and smooth. I was 18.

Only company I ever worked for that had beer in a vending machine! I'm betting they don't anymore, as it was bought by Federal Signal (If I am not mistaken) back in the 90's at some point and now is a division of "Allied Specialty Vehicles"

[OriginalGeek]

12. lol I bet they don't too

I would happily name the turds who tricked me for a month but I don't remember their name. It was in Orlando though so not that far from you! The boat place was Regal boats and I don't really have hard feelings for them - other than a few specific things that had nothing to do with getting laid off. They had to dump about 200 employees and I was one of them having only been there a year and change. BUT they did it the day after I came back from my daughter being born. THAT was a shitty time for a young father to get laid off.

Regal did NOT have beer in their vending machines, sadly. I sure could have used some when they brought in the Power Team* to preach to us one afternoon.



*The Power Team was a spectacle of large body-builder/weight-lifter type men doing feats of strength to preach the word of god. lol. We had a choice of going to the show or going on break for a half hour. The break area was right next to the event area.
So we smoked and laughed at the jug-heads breaking shit for god.

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Oh man.....

I can imagine that must have been...weird!

It is a business, not a damned church!

I worked for a car haul company that had "company chaplains" - only firm I ever came across that employed those. On my first day the guy introduced himself to me, telling me why he was there. I told him it was a pleasure to make his acquaintance, but I doubted I would ever need his services.

The last company before my present employer had Xmas parties every year that were started off with a prayer. At that last party I attended, I got up and walked out to the lobby just at the start of that nonsense. Sorry, I don't need god with my dinner, thank you very much. The owner also got up each year and made the point that it was a "CHRISTMAS party", NOT a "holiday party" because, well, I guess he was a big Bill O'Reilly fan and that's where he got all his important news.

[OriginalGeek]

14. yep, same kinda folks

I occasionally wondered if my not going to the weekly prayer breakfasts before work played a part in getting me on the "laid-off" list. But I wouldn't have gone even if I knew it would get me the boot. I don't need god with breakfast either. lol

[hollysmom]

7. they have that in the cafeteria's in Germany n/t

[bif]

11. Saw those all over Germany back in the 1970's.

[jmowreader]

15. We had beer vending machines at Fort Campbell and in Berlin

The regulation at the time said anyone on active duty was allowed to drink (now it's 21, bummer) and another reg said if you had beer in a vending machine it had to be in its own machine, so you wouldn't "accidentally" push the wrong button and have to figure out something to do with a beer until Retreat sounded. So...we had a machine with Coke products in it, one with Pepsi products and a third with BEER written on it in big letters.

[47of74]

17. I say if you're old enough to....

...vote and serve in our country's military then you're probably old enough to drink. (I say probably because there are those who could maturely handle alcohol at 18 and those who cannot at 80).

[Joe Shlabotnik]

16. Nice,

Where's the smokes. Ah, the good old days when I could buy a pack with my paper route money. (And no I'm not being sarcastic... I regret nothing!)