I got something free from a vending machine today! Was I being unreasonable keeping it?

[didntlikeanyofthesuggestions]

My workplace has a vending machine. When I walked past it today there was an item stuck and literally as I was looking it fell down. Nobody else was around so I helped myself. It's was only worth £2 but it really made my day.

What's the best thing that's happened to you today? Any small wins to report?

Also was I being unreasonable keeping it?

There's another thread on MN by a woman whose work vending machine got her purchase stuck, left it for some reason, and then returned to find her item was gone.

Edited to say X post

Love threads like this
Would be impressed if it was my thread and it attracted this many comments 🤣

Im here for the Win...

I used to do surveys for Amazon vouchers to buy gifts for my family about 10 years ago when my disability money got cut off and I had a very long wait for a tribunal (I won and got a full back pay eventually).

It took me weeks but I managed to get enough to buy my late partner a kindle fire tablet. He used it every day for years until it finally broke. He didn't have an Amazon account at the time so I'd set it up using mine.

A few days ago I got an email from Amazon explaining they were shutting down the old kindle fire shop and since my account had outstanding credit it was going to be refunded to me.

It arrived the same week that would have been our 17th anniversary - it felt like one last present from him. It was enough to buy myself a couple of new video games for my PS5.

😂

To celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary my parents went to New York.

When they got to the hotel there was some problem with the booking, they were eventually found a room.

A few weeks later my mum said that no payment had been charged, my dad said stuff them thinking it was just the hotel.

It wasn't just the hotel, they had a free trip to New York.

A car pulled out of the parking space next to me yesterday, and as I got out I noticed a pound on the floor so that went straight in my pocket.

Did you not see any of your colleagues angrily typing away on Mumsnet about their £2 drink getting stuck then being stolen whilst they were away from the machine?

Yesterday there was a thread from a woman who had gone to get help when the item she’d paid for had got stuck in the vending machine. When she returned the item was gone. What are the odds???

You must both work in the same place. Track her down. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship if you are prepared to reimburse her for her snack. Alternatively you could mock her and become arch enemies. Either way you must keep us informed.

@didntlikeanyofthesuggestions

YABVU to brag, and lord it over everyone on here. Some people don't have a pot to piss in, and you come on here bragging and goading about your 'little win!' A £2.00 item was clearly a king size Mars bar, and you should be bloody ashamed and embarrassed, and hanging your head in shame boasting like this. No wonder you didn't put another post on this thread. You've had your arse handed to you on a plate.

Go and sit in the corner of the room, and think about what you did!

#jokingobvs

The spiral ones are the worst - hard to fill.

You can often spot a point where you might be able to get 2x for the price of 1, sometimes with the use of a bit of violence.

I've often had 2x of something horrible like extra strong mints in order to get the 2 for 1, even though I don't actually like the mints. Of course there is the rare occasion where you go for 2x of something horrible and only get 1x of the horrible thing, which is probably adequate punishment.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Op are you seriously worrying about this?

I’d take it as a mini win. There have been times when my vending machine purchase has failed to fall / machine swallowed the cash. Sometimes life has a funny way of evening itself out.

Haha, me too. There are usually plenty of posters suggesting they should be locked up and have their children removed from their care for such terrible behaviour too. We are truly watching the breakdown of society as it happens.

If people didn't get the free stuff there would be no incentive for vending machine manufacturers to make their machines better.

TBH if I had hired/bought the machine I get freebies from I would be well pissed off because the amount of slippage on that machine must be huge and I am sure the things aren't cheap, tens of thousands to buy probably.

I won a tub of chocolates at an event yesterday and I adore chocolate. Your win with the machine makes up for all of us who have paid for something and nothing happens and the machine advises only a website to claim a refund.

Could have been worse - could have been a baby

What's the point in having a vending machine, then, if they're relying on people's integrity? Why not just have the stuff on an open table and an honesty box...unless people would nick the money as well then?!

There's some context to this!

I know this isn't really the point of this hilarious thread, but wanted to reply to this post anyway...

On my way into Asda last week, I was approaching a lady who was loading her shopping into a taxi. Having clocked there WAS NOT a coin in it, I offered to take it back to the store entrance for her.

She had clearly forgotten there wasn't a coin in there and told me I could keep it. So I pointed out that there wasn't one. So she told me again that I could keep it. So I reminded her AGAIN that there was NOT a coin in it. At which point she apologised and said sorry, she just thought I was homeless, much to my other half's amusement.

I wouldn't have minded if I was wearing my usual scruffy workwear, but I was actually owning a rather expensive coat (that I got from the excellent New Life Charity Superstore in Cannock) and looked a darn sight smarter than I usually do.

No good deed goes unpunished apparently!

I don't think everyone replying to this thread has seen what prompted it:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5450084-bought-something-from-a-vending-machine-in-work-and-it-got-stuck-i-went-to-get-changed-came-back-and-it-was-gone

I once got two 4 bar kit kats as a kid instead of one and shared with my sister. Didn't even consider it was stealing, just lucky. Parents knew they felt the same.

I took delivery of my Sainsbury's order a month or so ago, and when I was putting it away I realised I had a beef topside joint as well as the pork joint I ordered.

It did cross my mind to phone them and tell them, but then I decided to put it in my freezer instead.

A few people pointed it out up thread.

Many vending machines have taken my money and refused to deliver the goods, so consider it a gift.

😂😂