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A cautionary tale of being too clever for your own good
Once upon a time, a precocious and lovably weird little girl watched Happy Days on her old-time television set with her grandmother. She noticed that every time the gang wanted to hear a song at the diner, they had to put money in the jukebox. Then, as she studied her television, she had an epiphany: The shows she watched were only able to play if you put money into the series of holes at the top of the set above the screen. So she triumphantly grabbed the pennies she had been saving for candy and began depositing them into the television, feeding the hungry beast that needed them to keep the shows running.
Three visits from the television repairman later, the holes were covered up with masking tape and change was only dispensed by grandmother while actually at the candy store.
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