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by Cory_McCloskey from Phoenix

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Travel Tip
Sep 6, 2007 | 6:55 AM
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Here's some advice.  Always keep a few dollars on you.  Always.

Because if you happen to be traveling the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the Turnpike Commission will not accept debit cards, credit cards, organ donor cards or livestock as payment for using their highway.  This probably seems like common sense to you, doesn't it?  Of course it does.  I have what is commonly called "no sense."  Somehow, I thought that, this being the 21st century and all, I could just offer my debit card as payment.

So if you try my approach, you will engage the toll collector in a much more intimate way than usual.  You'll actually have a conversation.  You'll exit your car and approach the glass enclosure.  Your encounter will start with a huge, heavy sigh by the turnpike employee.  The kind of sigh that says, "You are the stupidest person I've met this month."

This will be followed by much copying down of numbers and addresses and the receipt of the yellow copy that you've signed and by your signature have promised to pay your toll within 10 days or face a $1,000 fine.

So again...  Just a few dollars can save a whole lot of talk with someone who doesn't like you and will never see you again.

Cashless society?  Riiiiiiiight.
 

 

 

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thebritishchick read my blog view my photos
Sep 6, 2007 | 7:55 AM

LOL nice mug shot Cory :) Hope you paid it or thats one expensive journey!!! We forget about tolls here as we dont have any, thank god because i never carry cash.
Did you all have fun apart from your little altercation (sp?)
MtnLion read my blog
Sep 7, 2007 | 9:38 AM

Cory looks like he had a rough night
Cory_McCloskey read my blog view my photos
Sep 7, 2007 | 10:43 AM

Up at 5...
Layover in Houston...
Baggage Claim...
Rental Car...
Turnpike trouble...

You said it.
thebritishchick read my blog view my photos
Sep 7, 2007 | 10:54 AM

Gotta love travelling huh!! Hope it was worth it when you got there, those reunions can be alot of fun.
You should see the state of me once i land at Heathrow airport after travelling alone with a then 3 yr old LOL, it is not pretty i can tell you :) Then the baggage claim, luckily i still have the british passport so we walk right on through and then this end i have green card so can walk on through here as well, those immigration lines are horrendous.
TweetyNMe read my blog view my photos
Sep 7, 2007 | 7:26 PM

My trip to the east coast involved going through several rolls of quarters. Thankfully I had been warned before I started my journey. Like many others, I just don't carry cash.
Scott53 read my blog view my photos
Sep 8, 2007 | 7:10 AM

Nick Note still wins the worst mug shot award.
barndoor
Sep 11, 2007 | 10:50 PM

hahaha :-}
mountainmamma read my blog
Sep 18, 2007 | 10:35 AM

Hey Cory good tip wish I would have gotten it 4 yrs ago when we went through those pesky turnpikes... We got lucky our 2 girls at the time had their little purses filled with a bunch of change so we robbed every penny they had!! Thank goodness for them little purses. Oh and when we reached our destination we paid them back and my older daughter at that time gladly took her money but then said I am charging you a dollar more since we saved your butt!! Any how that is my toll experience.. Hey Cory since you are always going to different schools to do the weather how bout coming up North to Springerville NOT EAGAR and do the weather from the Springerville Headstart?? Do you think that would be a possibility?? Let me know k thanks
jroc847 read my blog view my photos
Oct 19, 2007 | 1:54 PM

i think even toll collectors should have a certain level of professionalism and "Customer Service"...
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