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- From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
- Subject: Re: Fun with toll people
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.194133.5554@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:41:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.104807.2200@walter.cray.com>
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- In article <1993Jan27.104807.2200@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.
-
- And for the adventurers, substitute 'candy' with 'laxative candy'...
-
- (after spending 2 hours for 10 or so miles in Chicago, most of it
- waiting to merge in/out of tollbooths (every 2-3 miles) the punishment
- fits the crime quite well :-))
-
- (insert plenty of smilies :-)
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- Spiros
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