Thursday, March 20, 2008

Stoopit Tolls

Florida may have palm trees, grapefruit, Disney, spring training, and miles of beautiful beaches, but it also has the dumbest toll road system in the universe. Many of the exits have just EXACT CHANGE and SUNPASS ONLY lanes--no real person in a toll booth. And you don't know this (not that you'd do anything different) as you exit the highway.
So what to do if you have two credit cards, sufficient currency and traveler's checks for three months on the road, but only a dime, two nickels and six pennies and the toll is 50 cents (exact)? Duh. And the buzzer goes off and a bright yellow light spins around and presumably the State of Florida takes a snapshot of your rear license plate. And when you find the right phone number to call to ask what you can do to avoid the "$100 FINE FOR TOLL EVADERS," you're told by a sweet 20-something with a southern accent to wait for a bill in the mail and send a check for the amount of the toll.

Next stop.... Alabama. -DJN

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