Why is it that, with all the technical advances that we’ve made as a society, the curly vending machine bracket still manages to gyp thousands of people out of their hard-earned snack money every day? You’d think someone would have come up with a better system a long, long time ago. (These miracle machines probably do exist, but I’ve yet to come across one.)
Speaking of which, I love the dilemma that exists when a bag of chips dangles precariously from one of those curly brackets, yet the buyer doesn’t really want that particular snack. You have to ask yourself — do I buy the snack I had my heart set on, or do I go for the value proposition of two snacks for one? Yes, these are the situations I choose to analyze.