I went to speak at a conference about vending machines today (yes, my life really is that exciting). My very first task in my very first full-time job was to choose and procure an automatic drink machine - however that was quite some time ago so I thought I'd better bone up on more recent developments.
I recalled being fascinated once by a vending machine at a motorway service station in Belgium that sold fries (with mayonnaise, bien sur). Perhaps there is something more unusual?
Well, well, well. Not only can you buy crabs from a vending machine (yes, that's what's in the weird photo). I discovered you can also purchase from a machine:
- bread in a can
- porn videos
- pet rhinoceros beetles
- Smart cars
- 25lb sacks of rice
- eggs
- used schoolgirl panties
Anyway I decided to tweet about this, as a kind of off-the-wall trailer for my conference session. I have now attracted quite a lot of new followers, not my usual sort. I don't think they'll stay long but it makes me feel popular, even if I know it's for all the wrong reasons.
Once on my previous blog I put up a post, with picture, about some new red shoes I bought. I got 5,000 hits in one day. I thought this was because I was coming up on shopping searches, but a kindly social media egg-spurt explained that it's about shoe-fetishists. Nowt so queer as folk, eh?
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