Word: vendacard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...repeated what I had tried to do. I mean, if he could make the cursed thing work by doing that, it should have worked while I was doing it. Sure enough, he couldn't get the envelope printed. After five minutes and claiming 20 more cents on my VendaCard, he retreated...
...first is space. Besides the valuable square footage the machines occupy in libraries and labs around campus, it's really annoying to have to carry around four cards (let alone eight, 10 or 12) in your wallet or back-pack. Second, each VendaCard costs from 60 cents to one dollar. After four or five Venda-Cards, you could buy a small pizza or some beer...
What makes it even more expensive is that my roommate and I have realized that we never have the VendaCard we want at the time we want it. My roommate has two VendaCards for the MCZ labs because the last time he was there and wanted to use the photocopiers, he realized that even though he had his Law School VendaCard and his Bio Labs CopyKey, he'd left the MCZ card back at home. So he had to shell out another dollar...
...real waste is the money that is left on the cards themselves. I go to the Design School to make photocopies maybe once a year. The last time I went, however, the smallest bill I had, after I accidently bought two VendaCards, was a five. I only needed to make a few copies, so I ended up with a VendaCard that has an extra three dollars on it. Does Tommy's take VendaCards...
Chances are I'll never spend that last three dollars on my Design School VendaCard. Who gets that money? The Design School. And they didn't even have to use up any toner in their photocopy machine...