The black and white comedy films from the 50’s is where I saw automats, never face to face. I didn’t even know that was their proper name until just now.
It was an invention of its time. It could work now, but only in closed environments and with people of easygoing temperment.
True. True. True.
Today an automat would succumb to the subhuman vermin roaming our
urban landscapes. The dispensing doors would last a week until they were all
pried open and destroyed, the glass smashed. The seating would be ripped and vandalized.
Welcome to dystopian world of Wakanda.