TollBoothGuy
5 Years Experience
Brooklyn, NY
Male, 33
I spent just short of five years as a toll collector on the western end of New York State. Ask me anything, but please don't pay me in pennies.
Can’t say I’ve ever experienced a specific situation of that nature. But generally speaking everybody reacts differently in those types of situations and you can’t really predict how things are going to go. People have an expectation of normalcy and sometimes they stick to it even when things are deviating significantly from normal.
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Emergency vehicles don’t stop. I believe they’re pretty much all equipped with EZ-Pass.
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Why not? People love to use these brief opportunities where they feel like they have control and power to exert their own existential unhappiness onto a party that by definition, cannot reciprocate in kind.
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We issue an unpaid toll. Take down some information and give them instructions on how to mail it in. Usually takes a few minutes. People in line get pretty mad.
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Can’t really recall a specific number but not really more than a few dollars. Usually happened to people that thought they had exact and drive off without letting us count first.
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I don’t miss the job and I can’t imagine anyone else will miss the experience of stopping to pay a toll. Time marches on. Though it marches a little slower upstate if you’re feeling nostalgic.
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Dirty pennies.
Money is inherently dirty, but there is just something really disheartening about change coated with dust, dirt, fast food grease, motor oil, and god knows what else. At that point I’d rather just do an unpaid toll.
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