Real Life Seinfeld: Iowa Man Fired For Smashing Vending Machine Over Stuck Twix Bar

[Initech]

It’s a familiar tableau: an overpriced vending-machine candy bar dangles on a spiral hook, tantalizingly out of reach and refusing to drop.

For most of us, that mini-drama usually ends in defeat. But not for Robert McKevitt of Spirit Lake, whose victory over an uncooperative vending machine ultimately cost him his job.

McKevitt was working the second shift at Polaris Industries’ warehouse in Milford when he decided to break for a snack last fall.

He says he deposited $1 in a vending machine, selected a 90-cent Twix bar, and then watched as the candy bar crept forward in its slot, began its descent and was abruptly snagged by a spiral hook that held it suspended in midair.

“I was, like, ‘Oh, man,’ ” said McKevitt, 27. “So I put in another dollar, and then it wouldn’t do anything.”

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20140219/NEWS/302190159/The-Twix-bar-forklift-fired-Iowan?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

[liberal N proud]

1. And to think, all he would have had to do was reenter the code

The machine isn't cleared until the candy drops through the photo-eyes at the bottom of the machine.

[Javaman]

2. Well, after all it does have the cookie crunch! nt