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Takings its toll
July 13, 2009We had already paid about $3.50 in tolls to drive about 5 miles on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. Now, my little sister (No. 6) was trying to get me across the George Washington Bridge to deposit me at my apartment in New York City. (She's living in New Jersey for the summer, we had gone to the beach for the day, and now I was trying to get home.)
We saw a sign that another toll booth was coming up. Sigh. We collectively scrounged around in our purses to see how much money we could come up with -- $1.85, plus a handful of pennies. Surely, that would get us across a mile-or-so-long bridge.
And then we saw the sign -- $8.
EIGHT DOLLARS????
We were just a smidge short. There was nothing we could do except pull up to the gate and tell the guy that we didn't have the money. Luckily, this was the first congenial Yankee I'd met. He told us to just go on through.
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