The Vending Machine That Knew Too Much
In the middle of a sleepy town in Idaho, there sat an old vending machine outside a laundromat. It looked normal sun-faded stickers, dusty buttons, half the sodas always out of stock. Nobody gave it a second thought. Until one day, it spoke. At first, it was just a whisper. Taylor, a 17-year-old who washed her dad’s mechanic coveralls every Sunday, swore she heard it say, “Don’t get the grape soda.” Thinking it was a prank or her imagination, she pressed the grape soda button anyway. Nothing came out. Instead, the screen blinked: "I told you so. "From then on, the vending machine started getting... weirder. It gave advice. “Skip 3rd period today.” “Don’t trust the guy with the red backpack.” “Go home. Now.”
