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From: Clayton Cramer <optilink!cramer@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: Last Laugh! A Phone Without the ( and ) Buttons
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Date: 30 May 90 21:58:14 GMT
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In article <8351@accuvax.nwu.edu>, craig@gendep.info.com (Craig
Dickson) writes:

# If you think you get dummies on a switchboard, then you
# have no idea what people will do with ATM's.
   .....

# After taking a few seconds to recover from her surprise, she said, as
# calmly as possible, "Does the fact that the building is missing two
# walls and the roof suggest anything to you?"

I've got one almost as good.  My wife was working as a teller for
Santa Monica Bank in the early 1980s, when ATMs were still a bit of a
novelty.  One day, a guy with a very pronounced New York City accent
walked in and informed them -- rather loudly and angrily -- "Hey!
Your coffee machine don't work!" and stalked out.

It took them several minutes to figure out that he was attempting to
purchase coffee from the ATM.


Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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