Sheldon > wrote:
> These days ice dispensers are used to fill glasses... very few
> businesses are still scooping drink ice. And there is nothing new
> about the concept... cold drink vending machines have contained ice
> dispensers for nigh on fifty years now... often the ice, the syrup,
> and the carbonated water was dispensed perfectly but the machine would
> forget the cup, so I suppose you can say it was so automated that it
> drank it for you too.

you live in the suburbs or in some place where everything is new.