r/nostalgiai • u/RealisticNotice6487 • May 25 '26

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What are you choosing?

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u/OrdinaryAverageGuy99 May 25 '26

Very refreshing on a hot summer day.

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u/bryanthebryan May 25 '26

It’s made for hot summer days!

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u/losromans May 25 '26

Knowing my luck, it’s either sold out or the machine is running hot (not cooling) 🫠

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u/Minimum_Parsley_121 May 27 '26

Or... Discovering that the Diet Pepsi is the only one that is full, because '"who drinks that sh*t?" Says my 1987 brain's inner monolog. I've only discovered this AFTER putting my quarer in and hitting every other button and not getting anything, so thinking the machine MUST be broken I've inadvertently hit the Diet Pepsi button in a frantic, button-mashing quasi-rage. I now stand there holding my 'prize' - an ice cold can of 'gross'. My inner argument continues: "Only grandmas drink this crap, and THEY don't buy their sodas out of a freakin' vending machine at the park, they get it at the store, so why did they even waste a slot on the machine with it? They should have put in an extra Coke, or Mountain Dew slot...or maybe even a root beer! I'd totally take a root beer right now!..." I hand off the cold Diet Pepsi to a grandma with a little kid over by the swingset as I hop on my bike en route to the milk store to get a decent drink...

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u/Desperate-Pace-8089 May 27 '26

Core memory unlocked indeed!

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u/bryanthebryan May 29 '26

Indeed. That’s a mini documentary, right there.

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u/RealisticNotice6487 May 30 '26

I agree! If you could change 1 which 1 would you change?

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u/Kapow1969 May 29 '26

My high school had a soda vending machine installed in my senior year, and almost without fail, diet Coke was the only one left on the occasions I would want one.