home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!nntp1.radiomail.net!psinntp!psinntp!npri6!eric
- From: eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams)
- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Subject: Re: Dulles Toll Road
- Summary: pennies from heaven?
- Message-ID: <6104@npri6.npri.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 17:10:13 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.215833.13048@openage.openage.com> <23813@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Aug27.010120.29762@openage.openage.com>
- Distribution: dc
- Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA
- Lines: 16
-
- In article <1992Aug27.010120.29762@openage.openage.com>, ghost@openage.openage.com (Glenn Host) writes:
- > dianne@ERA.COM (Dianne Schroeder-Hansen) writes:
- >
- > >pay your toll with pennies instead of a quarter. If
- > >enough people feel strongly enough to pay with pennies, it should make a
- >
- > There are signs saying "no pennies" at the toll booths
- > The best you can do is pay with big bills or nickels.
-
- According to a friend of mine, pennies are acceptible, it's just they
- don't *want* you to use them (must take a long time to chug through
- them). Not that I approve of this particular act of civil disobedience...
-
- -------- eric@npri.com ---------- or ---------- ...uunet!uupsi!npri6!eric -----
- "I would my horse had the speed of your tongue."
- Eric C. Williams/ NPRI/ Alexandria, VA/ USA/ (703) 683-9090/ Usual disclaimers.
-