The other day, I had to print out something at the college I transferred from for the college I transferred to.
Unbeknownst to me, the school had installed a new prepayment system for printing...and that's where the fun begins...
I went in and attempted, as under the old rules, to print out what I needed and then pay for the pages I printed. I tried, and found out that you needed a) a current ID card, and b) money placed onto the chip in the smart card.
Since my ID had expired and wasn't even a smart card, I found a sympathetic soul to let me borrow his to put some money on it and print out what I needed. I made the transaction and placed the money on the card. After placing the card into the printer's attached reader, the money was deducted.
And my print job was erased from the queue.
The person whose card I had borrowed was around and heard me muttering. I told him what happened, and he was kind enough to go through it again (with his own money, as I was flat broke after that), only to have the exact same sequence of events repeat itself.
Since this machine had eaten both of our money, we began to swear at and beat on the machine (yeah, yeah, not the hardware's fault, but you can't smack the living shit out of executables), when he suddenly pipes up with "Well, no shit it fucked you."
"What?" I ask, interested in what I'm hoping is a solution to the problem.
"It's a Diebold."
"Son of a bitch."