{"id":2509,"date":"2025-03-30T16:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T15:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2025-04-12T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T15:02:02","slug":"the-suspicious-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"The Suspicious ATM."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.<br>Papaia remembers that the flight for the conference is in two hours, but once at the airport, he realizes he hasn\u2019t paid for the ticket.<br>Moreover, with their too many, open, and broken luggage, they create chaos wherever they go.<br>After missing the flight, Ravioli asks Papaia for his card to buy some chocolate from the vending machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are at the airport, where Papaia is asking Ravioli to withdraw money instead of using the card directly on the vending machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Papaia hands the card to Ravioli, who follows his instructions and withdraws money first at the ATM.<br>We are now in the ATM area. The machine seems tampered with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: How strange! The card barely fits into the slot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: Here\u2019s the first &#8220;how strange&#8221; moment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, the ATM turns off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: How strange! The display just went off!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: And here\u2019s the second &#8220;how strange&#8221; moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli spots another ATM a few meters away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ravioli: There\u2019s another one! Thank goodness! I\u2019ll use that one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Igor: &#8220;Imagine you\u2019re Ravioli. After the second \u2018how strange,\u2019 you realize Papaia\u2019s card has probably been cloned.<br>What do you do? Do you go back right away to warn him? Yes, but that would mean a lot of explaining, and worst of all, a long wait before you can eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No! Ravioli has a better solution: go to the other ATM and pretend nothing happened!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2506\">Previous<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2512\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three renowned scientists\u2014Papaia, Banani, Ravioli\u2014and their assistant Igor work at the NASAL observatory.Papaia remembers that the flight for the conference is in two hours, but once at the airport, he realizes he hasn\u2019t paid for the ticket.Moreover, with their too many, open, and broken luggage, they create chaos wherever they go.After missing the flight, Ravioli &#8230; <a title=\"The Suspicious ATM.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/?p=2509\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Suspicious ATM.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}