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My last dollar for a Cup-of-Noodle to feed a family of five in 2026.

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I cried in a meeting yesterday when my headphones wouldn't connect and I couldn't hear, so I took them off and tried to speak, and then I was muted and no one could hear me. Last. Straw.

In my case one "I don't like your tone" email from a colleague for asking for the training we desperately need.

I stopped reading at the word "snack" and had just a wonderful day

Many have already had the vending machine fall over on top of them trying to dislodge the snack.

🤔

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I had my hand stuck in a snack vender machine once . Won't give details but she was really excited..

The start of your post made me think you were just surrounded by really attractive people, then it just got really depressing

I buy my snacks at the supermarket because I can get 3 to 8 times as much that way! Never use a vending machine for that anymore!

It wasn’t me. What happened to that vending machine. It was like that when I got there.

Yeah, I'm about one more Stupid Thing from losing my shit, and too tired to even have another mid-life crisis about it.

Yes, all this and more as life on a personal level is particularly rough right now for friends of mine. Perfect storm. I feel guilty for moments of joy or levity. I'm on cruise control. Or autopilot. What wall?

I read that like a metaphor, where we are all snacks stuck in a vending machine.

Wish I could do more from over here 🇬🇧.

Just the thought is enough to put me over the edge.

I absolutely feel sorry for the next door to door salesman that comes to my house.

even reading this pushed me way closer to the edge.

Don't bother. I've already tried rocking the country back and forth to get it unstuck 🤷🏻‍♂️

I have dreams about this more times than it happens to me in real life. Though to be fair it’s only happened to me once in real life, but I think if I was desperate enough to use a vending machine and it did me dirty I’d cry.

My brain just wanted this to be: "Just about everyone I know is a snack getting stuck in a vending machine ." And then it wanted to sit with that to figure out what it means. My Brain's first response "Pink cookies in a plastic bag..." According to my research the OP is filthy.

......yep

DO NOT shake the vending machine. They manage to kill a couple of people every year.

It wasn't a snack yesterday, it was caffeine. I was at work. I almost fought a vending machine, BUT I DIDN'T. Externally: 🫠. Internally:

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Sounds about right

That's why I'm a 7/11 guy in a Vend-O-Matic world.

🖐🏽 So am I!!

This is what I’m choosing to takeaway from your message

Time for the Falling Down reboot, except this time it's a whole block of office buildings where everyone just loses it and takes to the street.

Mine came on Monday night.

I've had a massive run of bad luck these last two weeks starting with my car breaking down in the middle of the hwy. Got it towed to a Midas that had us over a barrel and took advantage. My phone slipped out of my lap and the screen is pretty messed up now despite my screen protector./1

Great way to put it!

I'll have you know that because I have exactly the right combination of brute force and book smarts I can usually get those machines to give up snacks I haven't even paid for. It's my superpower.

I will burn this whole fucking planet to the ground if that twix doesn't drop damn it

Having been diagnosed with an untreatable terminal condition. The last time I had a full breakdown, was in a large store. "There's 400 different types of toothpaste."

Yes indeed! Make mine chocolate, please!! I’m barely hanging on!

Why won’t he just fucking die!!!! 😩

hell if you just ask me to imagine it I'm pretty sure I can lay down in my bathroom floor and sob

Thanks for normalizing my current mood

@michelleroy78.bsky.social thank you! I’ve struggled to find appropriate words to describe how I and collectively society is feeling/functioning. I’m adding this to my list because even emojis like these can only say so much ! 🤯😶😡🆘💔🫥🌪️🔥

I can actually lift a vending machine. Not far, but far enough that it WILL render unto me the snack...

This hit way too close to home. One bad day away from unraveling, too real. 😅

Yep…

It was a Twix!

Who can afford vending machine snacks??

Truly heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹

I am “everyone “😂😂

I LOVE this analogy.

That is a superbly accurate way to summarize our ability to cope with current events. Cope? Not even close.

🤣🤣

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That is damn funny and I’m here for it!!!

And I don't know a soul who's not been battered I don't have a friend who feels at ease I don't know a dream that's not been shattered Or driven to its knees

Not if the vending machine collapses first!

I've never felt more seen in my life.

😢

So many people are commenting on social media everywhere that caring Americans are beginning to fracture. The only thing I can say is, so is the 🍊💩.

On that cheery note, I'd have to agree with you.

Same. Myself included.

Yeah that would push me over the edge for sure

So true!

Yes

This is all of us on the wrong day:

Yessssss…sss…s… *thud* (btw, on my phone the top line of your post is “Just about everyone I know is a snack” and as I read it for the first time I thought you were bragging that all of your friends are attractive, which I’m sure is indeed the case 😁)

The vibe for sure

I read this and my brain stopped at the word machine, and I thought yeah, that pretty much describes everyone I know...

I would never go near a vending machine. If it failed so would I.

This is why we create sanctuaries, if we are going down with the ship it may as well be somewhere that gives us joy. A garden, a fun room etc.

Oh girl, collapsed weeks ago. What do we do??? I pick my bad ass self up and head to the phone to call elected officials or go to a protest or eat an entire package of Oreos. Never mind, I can’t afford Oreos anymore. Off to a protest - these better work!

I'm one more pocket getting caught in a door handle away from running into the wilderness.

I’m also a stub my toe on the coffee table away from losing my shit completely.

LOL that just happened to me yesterday!!! I'm still here and I haven’t killed anyone yet, so... That said, I said, did have a slight meltdown when it happened... 😳🤣

Perfect description as to how I feel

I feel seen.

I really can't speak for everyone else around this region of the country, but I grew up with a high tolerance of my cheese sliding off my cracker and not getting all broke up about it. However, let me say that I certainly feel at times pretty close to that.

YES!!! THIS 👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽 captures being an average wage slave in the US‼️ Funny but PATHETIC at the same time!

Hi, we don't know each other but please include me on your list. Thanks!

Why doesn't that happen in Japan???

People I know are snacks Snacks that got stuck in a vending machine. Trapped snacks that no one can love or be loved by. Meanwhile that stranger that wanted your friends face emotional and financial collapse because they could not afford a fruitless investment

If the vending machine would just comply with my wishes after the money I put into it there’d be no reason to destroy it —metaphorically speaking, of course; I don’t condone violence, but if I did — it’d be either me, or the vending machine that’ll triumphantly walk away with that snickers.

We're all victims of psychological trauma and abuse. We're reaching the end of our ropes and they keep sawing away at what's left. Yet the hits keep coming from every direction. I feel like a deflated balloon

It's not that bad, you can always find a reason for living w/good snacks.

It's why I have my first therapy appointment tomorrow after work and a vacation starting Friday.

I can literally only afford to eat every three days.

Any given day.

I’m a snack getting Stuck in a vending machine Short of a collapse. #senriyu

So you obviously know me.

I think about this meme a lot - it's me, everyone I know, and everyone I don't know rn:

Male: "Step back.... I'll rock it...."

Understandable

We can’t eat anything but over cooked or hyper processed food. Ok maybe those already growing their own gardens are doing a little better.

My refrigerator is malfunctioning, and I'm not handling it well at all.

That’s a fair point

So true

i broke a coffee mug on saturday and seriously thought I was gonna snap entirely

I remember when summer was glorious.

One of my HS jobs was servicing vending machines in a huge refrigerator factory. I watched a forklift operator destroy a coffee machine bc it ate 2 quarters; he’d tried 2x to get a cuppa joe. This was 60 years ago. (Note: We gave refunds ‘no questions asked’. )

legit. I am one, count it...ONE bag of small chocolates away from dragging a vending machine into the street and setting it on fire. Aaaand in lieu of committing a felony, I'll damn sure shake the shit out of it.

My printer jammed and broke this morning. The house of cards is teetering...

This is the description I didn’t know I was looking for, to describe the current global situation, and my personal angst.

Or explosion