Not to hijack the thread and simultaneously sound like an ass (some people might think I'm a prime one after this story) but that whole quarter lineup thing always pissed me off.
Not so much for arcade games - because I could put a line of my own quarters on the CP or marquee.
Pool tables - whole different story. My cousin and I were hanging out at our local watering hole (I was about 28 at the time). He had just come back from the first Gulf War. There were 6 pool tables in the bar and we were the only ones using a table.
Some jerkwad comes up and lays his two quarters in spot 1 of the quarter rack on the table (we didn't have any lined up because there were no other occupied tables). We just wanted to drink beer, play pool, and catch up on the last few years.
So when our game ended, I put two more quarters in the slots and coined up the table for abother game. The guy comes up and says angrily "What the hell do you think you're doing? I put quarters on this table!"
Both me and my cousin tried to politely explain we were wanting to play and talk - not play "the winner of the next game" etc.
The guy got more and more irate until finally I - using my not yet drunk off my ass brain - picked up his two quarters off the table, said "Fine, you can have my two quarters." He said "damn right," and then watched, dumbfounded, as my cousin and I calmly picked up our cigs, beers, and cues and walked over to another table- using his quarters to start a new game there, and leaving him to play with himself at the original table.