time machine=ATM

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:55 PM -0600 2/25/05, Barbara Need wrote:
>>I had a student report the following to me today:
>>
>>>Greg,
>>>i was working at the hotel today and for the first time someone asked
>>>me where the time machine was, she referred to the atm as the time
>>>machine.
>>>
>>>-Jeri
>>--
>>-
>>Gregory J. Pulliam
>
>Where is she from? When I lived in Milwaukee (82-84) and was first
>using ATMs, the system available to me was a TYME machine (I don't
>remember what that stood for).

"Take Your Money Everywhere".

(We had them in Madison in the late 1970s.)

>  It was something else, when I came to
>Chicago (different banks). You (all) may or may not not remember that
>you didn't used to be able to use your ATM card in other networks (or
>even in other places)! Now I have not doubt that the ATM I put my
>card in will recognize it (even if there are OTHER problems with
>getting my money).
>
>Barbara