So, if you got the idea of that last post before you got bored and stopped reading...you know I got some cash to get me on my way.
I left Monday night after I helped Michelle and some other "Careerians" at the pastor's dinner. So, I got started about 7:30 that put in in Chicago around 9:30, a great time to drive through the city...smooth sailing I'm thinking...
I get to the first toll plaza, all prepared with my mercifully granted 15 dollars...in the form of a 5 and a 10.
I pull up in my "X University" vehicle to this toll booth person and hand her the 5. She looks at me and says "ah its 15 cent." And, I'm thinking ya and there's lots of 15 cent-ses in that 5 dollar bill, what's the problem, but says ya I know here's a five.
Well I don't have change.
What do you mean you don't have change.
Well I'm waiting on someone to bring me change I don't have any change. Is this all you have?
Ah, ya I have a 5 a 10 and 7 cents.
Well, I don't have any change.
Well, neither do I.
Well, I don't know how long it's gonna be but you're gonna have to pull over there and wait.
Ok, um you telling me because you don't have change, you going to make me pull over and wait for who knows how long so I can give you 15 cents? (Had I had more than "just enough" money I was ready to just say ok, keep the five dollars I just want to get to Rockford, but as we've established below, that wasn't a option I could afford)
So, this woman and I had a visual stand off for what seemed like hours as I sat at the toll plaza, until I finally said, so what are we going to do here. I have cash, you don't have change. That seems like maybe it's not my fault, right?
She looks at me with the most disgusted look I've ever seen and says...ya you just go ahead and take your fancy "X" University (there was some verbal emphasis on "X University" liken to that of a Jr High girl saying "whatever".) and get out of my toll booth.
I'm thinking Um, ok, friendly State of Illinois worker...so I set there for a minute longer and she says "I said go!"....and I said...ok I know I shouldn't have but I did...
"Well I didn't figure you wanted me to drive my fancy "X" University vehicle (similar emphasis added) through your nice toll baracade, would you like to raise it?
She did.
I departed.
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THAT IS HILARIOUS!!!!!
Reminds of the time you and I went to New Jersey on accident.... remember the toll booth worker's face when she saw me video taping her? :)
MKate!
All i can say is....Hilarious!
Mkate,
Amee enjoyed the cotton headed ninnymuggins reference!
I enjoyed the part about the "visual stand off." I can hear the sound "Wa, Wa, Waaaaaaaaaaaa" from the Client Eastweed movie, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" in background. In fact...If I was there, sitting in the passenger seat...I could have done it...Wa, Wa, Waaaaaaaaaaaa!
To funny Jason!
Hilarious! Those toll people are usually rather grumpy. Probably because they're toll people...
I got to hear this story in person, VERY FUNNY! Melissa I would have paid to have seen this encounter you had with the toll both lady!!
The 15 cent toll is actually an Indiana toll. There's the problem. Remind me to tell you about the time I did NOT have enough money to pay the toll and the lady took 2.67 a Napoleon Dynamite magnet and a bic pen so she didn't have to take the time to write me a ticket.
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