LaughAtlantis

When you were little, one of the the coolest things you could with a quarter was to buy stuff out of the supermarket vending machines - the crappy little things that are on the way out of most supermarkets. Most of it was candy - you had gumballs, off-brand Good 'n' Plentys, stale M&Ms, etc. There were also the bubble-shaped containers that had crappy prizes inside - key chains, generic Silly Putty, random ugly stickers, the occcasional troll doll, etc.

But the coolest thing you could get from a vending machine was the Superball. Superballs are made of some sort of plastic rubber-y material and if you drop them, they will bounce nearly as high as where you dropped them from - and if you slammed them down, they would bounce way back up to ridiculous heights before falling and inevitably hitting your dog or little sister in the face - hypothetically speaking, of course.

Eventually, little kids get sick of Superballs. The best way to get rid of a Superball is to bounce it so high that it lands in your neighbor's yard, and you don't have to worry about it ever again.

Of course, two weeks later you'll start to miss it and have to beg your parents for a quarter the next time you're in a grocery store. And with any luck, that Superball machine will be empty and you'll be forced to get that stale candy shaped like fruit. Blech.