The condom vending machines at MadGirlWorld were not the first foray into condom publishing. I bought three used condom vending machines on eBay. Well, the machines were used, they didn’t vend used condoms as far as I know. They were totally hardcore, made of thick stainless steel that you wouldn’t have been able to get into if you’d attacked it with a crowbar. Evidently someone had done just that on one of the machines. It made me wonder, were they after the money? Or were they just really horny and didn’t have the four quarters? Anyway, one of them still had the original artwork on it, obviously done in the seventies. It had weird stains on it and someone had scrawled “THIS GUM SUCKS” on it.
My initial plan was to clean it up and vend refrigerator magnets from it, since I found some fridge magnet blanks that had the same form factor as condoms at the Christmas Tree Shop. Then I realized that the thing was already perfect. There was absolutely nothing I could do to the machine that would make it any better than it already was. So the machine wound of vending fridge magnets with pictures of itself on them.
I can’t imagine why more people didn’t buy them!
Next I’m thinking of building a photo booth that takes a picture of itself from the outside while you’re sitting in it.
