Jungle

Field guide No. 1150

A battered vending machine in a tiled underground station shows a storm-tossed sea behind its glass, with sand spilling from the dispensing slot onto a wet floor. The sea has not been refunded.

Ocean in the subway vending machine

Exact change, rough seas.

A battered vending machine in a tiled underground station shows a storm-tossed sea behind its glass, with sand spilling from the dispensing slot onto a wet floor. The sea has not been refunded.

Field noteA storm-tossed sea runs behind the glass with sand spilling from the slot; exact change, rough seas.

Specimen
No. 1150
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale, Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A subway station with dry snacks.
Nearest existing relative
a battered snack vending machine.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Spaces

Also possible, also breaking scale