Toll Booth Funny

Some of you are fortunate enough to live in states which do not require you to PAY to drive on their roads. Now, I can understand why toll booths can confuse some folks- especially the new ones that do not have attendants, and the whole EZ Pass confusion. Well here's my public service announcement for the day:

These toll booths no longer exist. Real, live people to help you are probly not going to be found.

You have to READ the signs to figure out what to do.

If you are confused, the person (or long line of angry people) BEHIND you can likely help you figure out this contraption. PLEASE LOOK behind you at the people waving out their windows or stepping out of their vehicles. They aren't trying to rob you of your Turnipke change, they are simply trying to assist you with your trouble so we can ALL move along.

This is the closest image to what our modern toll booths look like
Do you see the basket? YES, this is where you throw your money.
All forms of cash?? Nooooo! Coins only. Normally, you will see a LARGE sign that reads, 'Bills Accepted Here ------>' Have you used a vending machine? With a dollar bill? There is a small SLOT to INSERT your dollar into .

Again, this is wat we see behind you. A basket. Even if you have NO athletic experience, you can still throw CHANGE into the basket. You don't even need to do math! The nifty new toll booths calculate everything for you. Its truly magical. If your toll due is $1.25 (which sucks, I know) and you throw a DOLLAR BILL into the basket with a quarter, the basket cannot sort your one dollar bill. The screen will still say you owe $1.00, and the big red stop light will remian red.
Please don't just sit there, wondering when it will turn green. Putting your car into reverse and opening the door to see if your dollar bill fell out of the COIN basket does no good to get you on with your journey. Yes, your dollar bill will still be there. The coin basket is not some vacuum trash contraption you may see at amusement parks. Your dollar bill will remain in the basket until either a whispy Pennsylvania wind carries it off or you FINALLY figure out to use the dollar bill slot. NO?? Oh, ok. You want to wait for the light to turn green, since you DID try to pay the $1.25. Go ahead, ignore all of us behind you. Still red? OK, you have every right to put your car into reverse and try to back out of this "broken" toll booth. The problem is- I can't back out because of the 5 cars behind me. Great plan, dig through your purse and find more coins to throw into the basket, while blissfully ignoring the nice citizen behind you who is trying to help. GREAT! Your light just turned green, everyone, even people who throw dollars into coin baskets know green means go! Yipee. Hey, one more thing. Before gunning it out of there, after holding us up for several minutes, please be sure you put your car back in DRIVE and out of reverse. You are lucky I was able to inch back a bit before you slammed your car into my van.

P.S. Of course I kept the dollar bill that she left in the basket.