With card output!
Just back from 10 days in Berlin.
There is this weighing scale in the subway station near where I was staying. It's probably been there since before the war...
A fine piece of German engineering!
You stand on it, and stick a 10 cent coin in. Suddenly everything starts spinning and moving and shaking and rattling, producing a whirling, buzzing, mechanical sound, for about 10 seconds.
Then everything stops, and it spits out at you a little white piece of paper with the date and your weight minimalistically printed on it.
I just couldn't get enough of it...
PS. Please subtract 6Kg for my boots and raincoat and all the rest of my clothing.
There is this weighing scale in the subway station near where I was staying. It's probably been there since before the war...
A fine piece of German engineering!
You stand on it, and stick a 10 cent coin in. Suddenly everything starts spinning and moving and shaking and rattling, producing a whirling, buzzing, mechanical sound, for about 10 seconds.
Then everything stops, and it spits out at you a little white piece of paper with the date and your weight minimalistically printed on it.
I just couldn't get enough of it...
PS. Please subtract 6Kg for my boots and raincoat and all the rest of my clothing.
posted by Anonymous at
12:09 AM
3 Comments:
You could also say you were holding one or both of the kids. Just kidding. You have nothing to worry about.
I put some money in a machine like that in San Francisco once. It wasn't so practical, or so cruel, as to tell me my weight, but it did give me a character analysis, not so much of who I was, but of who I wanted to be, and still do. It was the kind of thing you put in a box, but I have so many boxes, I can't find it now. (That's what I was looking for.)
I hope you had a good time, and I'm glad you're back.
10 cents is a cheap weigh-in (even with the exchange rate) its at least a dollar over here, and the machines are not nearly so interesting. But these machines are always way too exposed for my liking!
Looks good. Sounds strange!
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