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A<\/span>couple of months ago I was walking through Baltimore\/Washington International Airport on business. My flight had just landed and I was feeling a bit hungry but nothing in the terminal looked affordable or even tempting. <\/p>\n

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However, as I turned the corner from one airline terminal to another I experienced what can only be described as a modern day miracle. There, against a wall all by itself was a lone vending machine. Yeah, that’s right, a vending machine. You may recall my disdain for some vending companies with their aloof advertising…”Fresh To You<\/a>!”<\/p>\n

Well I knew right then and there that I had to eat my words from that previous rant \/ posting about vending machines. Words cannot adequately explain what I saw. So, I took out my camera and stopped in the middle of everyone’s way to take a picture of the now legendary machine.<\/p>\n

Behold! The FRESH GRILLED HOT DOG & SAUSAGE VENDING MACHINE!<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure I heard angels singing and I can’t really recall everything that happened after I took the picture. But I can tell you that it was delicious. Not only was I purchasing a delicious hot dog, but it came from a machine!<\/p>\n

No longer did I have to feel obligated to make small talk with a hot dog vendor asking where I was coming from or where I was going.<\/p>\n

No longer did I have to pretend to not see the vendor’s disdain for me as they slopped together another hastily made hot dog.<\/p>\n

No longer did I have to struggle with simple math while trying to calculate the right amount of change to hand over with my bills so that I got only bills back.<\/p>\n

The machine didn’t take extra change like that. It didn’t care where I was from or where I was going. It didn’t judge me for my poor addition and subtraction skills.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of that fortune teller machine in the movie “Big<\/a>” with Tom Hanks. In the end of that movie he goes back to being a kid after getting his wish to be “Big”. Not me. I will never go back. I’ll choose mechanically prepared food every chance I get.<\/p>\n

I don’t know, maybe I’ll see another one someday, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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