By walktowardslight - 03/12/2014 10:35 - Denmark - R?dovre

Today, I still didn't feel quite awake after the first lesson at school, so I went to get a cup of coffee from the vending machine. I had just enough money for it. No cup dropped into the holder, and the whole thing poured straight into the drip tray while I watched. FML
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Ugh, pour little me was just going about the daily grind, and now you're all making a mochary of my misfortune?!

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As a student/employee who frequently both relies on coffee and only seems to carry JUST ENOUGH money for it, this FML made me very, very upset :( My condolences, OP.

That is the most teasing thing I've ever heard! If it wasn't boiling hot I could have put my mouth under it :P

I havent seen one of those machines since 1990 at my local ymca.

You have coffee at school? school? Man i need to go there!

Well, this is Denmark, Scandinavia. Take a look at the Wikipedia article "List of countries by coffee consumption per capita", then you'll see what I'm talking about.

And may also be the difference between primary school (i.e. K-12) and college or university. OP, can you clarify?

Sure, I go to none of those, haha. The Danish school system is a bit different from yours. We have uni, but not primary school, high school and college. Instead, there's 10 years of main school, starting at age 6, then 3 years of optional secondary education in the gymnasium, which most people choose. (Both primary and secondary educations are free, university too, and once we turn 18 we get a monthly allowance for as long as we're under education.) Just to make this as redundantly detailed as possible, I go to something similar to the gymnasium, the HF/højere forberedelse. It more or less means "higher prep". It's 2 years, also free, and you can enroll at any age after main school, so here's quite an age spectrum. I'm 19.

Oh, and coffee-wise, educational institutions after main school usually have a coffee machine. Some main schools do, too. Mine did. Open a coffee shop next to one of these places and you're set for life.

Hiimhaileypotter 52

Sounds awesome, OP. I wish in the USA we didn't have to sell our souls for higher education.

PSYqualiac 17

Many universities have vending machines that give your pick of coffee and hot chocolate. I go for the hot chocolate, but buy my teachers a coffee every now and again. I actually got extra credit for it once because my teacher was having a crappy day until I brought some coffee for him.

next time i suggest going for a run.... or a bucket of cold water always does the trick. or bring your own cup next time

lol how can it do that im sure theres a sensor that shows there are no cups so it would be out of order right?

Wait a minute.... You have a coffee vending machine at your school? What?

Could mean college or university kind of school, rather than high school etc. I'd be mildly surprised to see a coffee machine at an American high school outside the teachers' lounge, but not entirely shocked.

I'm from Canada but we had coffee and tea at our cafeteria in high school.

I had a coffee machine and a cappuccino machine in high school.

RA91 26

You must have done something to piss Karma off. Cause she made it personal when getting back at you, lol.

Coffee would just give you a small boost anyway. Next time try doing some exercise. Even just running in place for a little can give you the same boost as caffeine and for free. At twice the fun!