I was at the hospital for some reason, trying to buy soup in the cafeteria. I paid at the counter, and they handed me a small styrofoam cup of shredded cheese and a ticket that I was supposed to take over to this special vending machine to get my soup. I had to stand in line to use the machine.

When I finally got to use the machine I found that it had a touchscreen interface with a multi-level system of menus, some of which contained several screens of options, so you had to page up and down to find the thing you were looking for. Things were ordered aplhabetically, but of course since I was asleep I was having a hard time reading the words at all, let alone remembering what I was looking for or determining whether it would become before or after what I was looking at, if I was even in the right menu.

I looked to my left, towards the counter and the line, and saw that several people had queued up behind me. Meanwhile I had been eating the shredded cheese. The top centimeter was fine, but under that it was moldy and all clumped together. So now I had two problems.