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Title: Another soda machine fan Post by: rugrunner on September 06, 2009, 09:11:49 pm My son Gabriel is Autistic. He is really into states, trains, and money.
He really enjoys my working pop machine (as we call it) that is in the garage. He doesn't care about the history, nor would he drink the soda or beer inside. He's all about the coin mech and watching it work. He always wants to be in the garage running the nickles, dimes and quarters through the machine. Since this isn't always convenient and I really don't want his mom out in my garage wondering where everything came from I came up with this: While I know it's not the standard restoration he loves it as you can see. Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: mznb1u on September 06, 2009, 09:32:41 pm Excellent!
:drinking: Tim :drinking: Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: collecture on September 06, 2009, 09:55:48 pm My sons are my coin mech testers too!
Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: rugrunner on September 06, 2009, 10:11:19 pm That mech has had more coins run through it this afternoon then it has the rest of it's life! lol
Nothing beats the drive of an autistic boy on a mission to roll some coins! Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: Kilroy on September 07, 2009, 08:02:30 am The smile on his face says it all
Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: rugrunner on September 07, 2009, 11:02:48 am I thought it was a good idea yesterday when I made the stand and brought the mech in the house.
This morning he got up at three thirty to play with it.... :tounge: Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: collecture on September 07, 2009, 11:15:56 am Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise!
He'll go to bed early tonight! Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: SIGNGUY on September 08, 2009, 08:51:55 am I might have to send some mechs your way for testing! :biggrin:
Great story! Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: rugrunner on September 08, 2009, 07:09:21 pm collecture- You obviously don't have an Autistic son. He stayed up to his regular bed time and was up at three thirty again to
play with his "pop machine" Autistics make the energizer bunny look like the bartles and james wine cooler guys... Trust me, I have three Autistic kids and they all go go go!! SIGNGUY- I'll bet he's put several thousand coins through that one in the last two days... Thanks for the kind words all! Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: collecture on September 08, 2009, 08:53:24 pm No - I have my own issues - ADHD kid
Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: sodaworks on September 08, 2009, 10:01:50 pm awesome post!!
Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: rugrunner on September 09, 2009, 08:44:42 am collecture- that's in the same neighborhood and ADHD kids can also have tones of energy right?
Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: collecture on September 09, 2009, 09:22:31 am Absolutely! Just got to channel it in the right direction!
Title: Re: Another soda machine fan Post by: rugrunner on September 09, 2009, 08:26:09 pm Amen Brother!
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