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- From: ericd@synoptics.com (Eric Davis)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: Fun with toll people
- Message-ID: <C1J8FE.8Lz@synoptics.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:45:13 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.104807.2200@walter.cray.com>
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- In article 2200@walter.cray.com, dilmore@eastrg2.cray.com (Robert James Dilmore) writes:
- >
- > On our families trip back from Whistler BC, we had a whole
- >pocketful of mints and candies from all the restaraunts we had
- >eaten at. I got the silly idea to start handing them out to all
- >the NY,NJ,DEL tollkeepers. The responses were excellent. Some
- >were down right confused, some smiled big time and actually
- >became real people and said "Thank you very much". Going through
- >Delaware was great there are about 5 toll booths. We even
- >experimented with trying to greet the toll keeper without the
- >mint and with the mint, without the mint got us no reply at all.
- >Try it sometime, beats counting pididles.
- >
- >Robert Dilmore
- >dilmore@cray.com
-
- If I were a toll "person", I do not know if I would eat the mints... Never know,
- first it was Haloween candy, then.... :-)
-
- Eric
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