>>Mikoto keeps kicking the soda machine - It ate a 10,000-yen
>>(think $100) bill on her.
>
>Well, 100 bucks at the time the gag was written. Nowadays, more like
>75. Which is admittedly still a lot of money for a soda. And even
>more for no soda.
>
>In UF the gag is slightly different: the student lounge Hassy machine
>just never comes across for her without provocation, regardless of
>how much money she put in it. Something about her personal
>electric field, probably. She always has to thump it to get what she
>paid for out of it. The faculty and staff, of course, don't
>understand that; all they see is a student habitually getting violent
>with the vending machine. :)

All she wanted was a Hassy. Or several.

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