Why Vending Machines Are Like Jails

While on my lunch break today, I was staring at the enemy in the vending machine, and I got to thinking, vending machines bear a great similarity to jails. Why you ask? Well, lets think about jail. Generally speaking, jails hold people who have done something considered ‘bad’. How did that person get there? They are believed to have committed a crime. They were captured by the cops. They were transported to jail. They were processed and placed in a holding cell. They sat there for awhile, then someone paid some amount of money to bail them out and set them free.

Lets think about vending machines. The snack food is made, loaded with trans fats and sugar. Not that everyone in jail is ‘the enemy’, but for the rest of this post, snack food will hereby be referred to as ‘the enemy/enemies’. The vending machine guy captures the enemies and transports them to the vending machine. He opens it with a key and places the enemies inside the snack machine in their individual holding spots. Someone comes along that likes them and pays some amount of money to ‘bail’ them out of the snack machine. Just like jail, an innocent food gets placed in there with the bad ones every now and then (poor harmless animal crackers =< ) they have to make bail to be released. Luckily, most people who get put in jail don’t get eaten when they get out. LOL Anyways, maybe I don’t make sense, but the analogy helped me to say no to the enemies staring back at me from behind bars today in the break room!