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kevzilla said:
So the word you spell correctly is quesadilla? Would've been a long time before I guessed that.

Yes, toll roads are an abomination. You're supposed to pay with an electronic tag affixed to your windshield. There's been all kinds of issues related to that. If you don't have one, there's a camera over every lane that takes remarkably good photos of your license plate as you speed by. There are some traditional booths, but not many; the fleecing is quite automated. All the money goes to some Spanish conglomerate. This was all rammed through by our beloved governor, who is now, hilariously, Secretary of Energy.

We may need @bentley, our resident pillar of the community, in here to explain the upside. I have never driven on a toll road and never will. 
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I would have gladly paid, but there wasn't a human nor a toll booth anywhere in sight!  What a farce.  

 
wikkidpissah said:
you gotta cough up $4, last i checked, to drive from OKC to Tulsa - the mobile equivalent of paying a ho to get off you
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The Oklahoma turnpike was an odd one.  Everyone pays that same amount at the half way point, then if you exit before the end of the turnpike you stop and get a refund.  WTF.  How does that save time. Why not just pay when you exit.

 
Would have been nice if the rental car agency had offered to let me pay the toll on my own instead of taking the liberty of paying it for me with the courtesy of extending a Russian Mafia like vig on top of it.

 
General Malaise said:
Would have been nice if the rental car agency had offered to let me pay the toll on my own instead of taking the liberty of paying it for me with the courtesy of extending a Russian Mafia like vig on top of it.
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One of the Texas jimtanners need to go throw some pennies on your behalf.

 
Here in CA, aka, the west, the toll roads are scintillatingly well marked. The signage for them is impossible to miss. They are also quite expensive. They are owned by the mob in NJ, you have 48 hours to pay online if you don't have a transponder. If you don't pay, their legal team starts every process known to mankind to ruin you financially. The vig is insane. Your 3 dollar toll can turn into $500 in an instant. And eventually, vinnie comes to your house and breaks your knee caps.  

 
My last work trip to Toronto I was taking the 407 everywhere.  Go to lunch, hop on the 407.  Come back, hop on the 407.  I knew I'd just get a bill and expense it but I didn't realize I'd get hit with a camera surcharge every time :lol:

 
Dan Lambskin said:
My last work trip to Toronto I was taking the 407 everywhere.  Go to lunch, hop on the 407.  Come back, hop on the 407.  I knew I'd just get a bill and expense it but I didn't realize I'd get hit with a camera surcharge every time :lol:
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In Illinois, paying cash, not having the transponder / IPass thingy in your car means each toll is double. We're at least given 7 days to pay before that Vinnie guy shows up though.

 
what ever happened to being able to disagree with someone? or hear a viewpoint that isn't lockstep with your own and have a conversation without going off the deep end in response?

guy: you know, i really prefer khaki colored slacks to navy

guy 2: YOU DUMB ####! I HOPE YOUR FAMILY DIES IN A FIRE, YOU IDIOT! YOU PROBABLY SUCK DUCK, YOU MORON! EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE IN IS BULL####! GO #### YOURSELF!

 
having far more anxiety than is probably warranted when considering changing barbers

new place opened up downtown. i could run there over lunch for cuts again.

place i go to now is 25 minutes away by highway, and he keeps trimming his hours. not open after 6 weekdays, now closed on the weekends.....  pretty much gotta pull the trigger on moving to a new barber but it feels an awful lot like breaking up with a girlfriend.

 
mr. furley said:
having far more anxiety than is probably warranted when considering changing barbers

new place opened up downtown. i could run there over lunch for cuts again.

place i go to now is 25 minutes away by highway, and he keeps trimming his hours. not open after 6 weekdays, now closed on the weekends.....  pretty much gotta pull the trigger on moving to a new barber but it feels an awful lot like breaking up with a girlfriend.
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I've found a neighborhood girl that cuts my hair in her basement but I'm not sure how sustainable that is.

 
Limp Ditka said:
In Illinois, paying cash, not having the transponder / IPass thingy in your car means each toll is double. We're at least given 7 days to pay before that Vinnie guy shows up though.
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But you have to mark down each toll plaza number, because if yo go their website to pay your tolls, you're #### out of luck if you don't know the plaza numbers. Screw you real good. My daughter blew through 4 tolls, and by the time she got a letter it was well over $400. BS money grab

 
Mr.Pack said:
But you have to mark down each toll plaza number, because if yo go their website to pay your tolls, you're #### out of luck if you don't know the plaza numbers. Screw you real good. My daughter blew through 4 tolls, and by the time she got a letter it was well over $400. BS money grab
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You should be able to look up by your license plate number. I know I've done it in the past.

 
When I travel and use google map, I turn the option off for toll roads.  It adds a few minutes here and there, but no convinience fee. 

ETA: Are there toll roads in Columbus, Oh?  I hope not because I have to go there soon...ugh

 
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I still have a 20 year old iPass in a drawer somewhere, and nobody ever came after me for it. 

Of course, I believe they've also changed the system approximately 8 times since then. 

 
mr. furley said:
having far more anxiety than is probably warranted when considering changing barbers

new place opened up downtown. i could run there over lunch for cuts again.

place i go to now is 25 minutes away by highway, and he keeps trimming his hours. not open after 6 weekdays, now closed on the weekends.....  pretty much gotta pull the trigger on moving to a new barber but it feels an awful lot like breaking up with a girlfriend.
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My barber is starting to talk retirement. He's in his late 70s and cuts the best flat top I've ever seen (he can free-hand it - no comb). I wish him all the best, but think he's being a little selfish leaving me stranded. I asked him who I should go to when he hangs up his clippers and he said "Well, you could go to Burt down in Edinburg - he cuts mine". I though "cool, only a couple of miles down the road". Then he said "But he's liable to retire before I do". I said "Okayyyyyy, so where besides Burt?". Him: "I don't care. Can't you find someone on your own?"

 
Osaurus said:
When I travel and use google map, I turn the option off for toll roads.  It adds a few minutes here and there, but no convinience fee. 

ETA: Are there toll roads in Columbus, Oh?  I hope not because I have to go there soon...ugh
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I should have done that.  The sad thing is that I was navigating through the city I grew up in.  Dallas has changed quite a bit in the last 20+ years, but not being able to get from DFW to the Park Cities in your hometown without hitting a toll road is just the peak of stupidity. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
My barber is starting to talk retirement. He's in his late 70s and cuts the best flat top I've ever seen (he can free-hand it - no comb). I wish him all the best, but think he's being a little selfish leaving me stranded. I asked him who I should go to when he hangs up his clippers and he said "Well, you could go to Burt down in Edinburg - he cuts mine". I though "cool, only a couple of miles down the road". Then he said "But he's liable to retire before I do". I said "Okayyyyyy, so where besides Burt?". Him: "I don't care. Can't you find someone on your own?"
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seriously considering keeping a barber on retainer after i retire

 
Uruk-Hai said:
My barber is starting to talk retirement. He's in his late 70s and cuts the best flat top I've ever seen (he can free-hand it - no comb). I wish him all the best, but think he's being a little selfish leaving me stranded. I asked him who I should go to when he hangs up his clippers and he said "Well, you could go to Burt down in Edinburg - he cuts mine". I though "cool, only a couple of miles down the road". Then he said "But he's liable to retire before I do". I said "Okayyyyyy, so where besides Burt?". Him: "I don't care. Can't you find someone on your own?"
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is it time for a new hair-do UH?

 
Limp Ditka said:
In Illinois, paying cash, not having the transponder / IPass thingy in your car means each toll is double. We're at least given 7 days to pay before that Vinnie guy shows up though.
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double the $$, quadruple the time! 

I live in NE Indiana, and go to Madison once a year, and maybe to Chicago itself a couple of times.  I jumped on the iPass bandwagon first chance I got, just to be able to keep doing 70MPH thru the tolls.  Saving half the money is just a bonus, and all in all well worth letting them hold on to my original $10 deposit basically forever.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
is it time for a new hair-do UH?
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My hair has to be either really short or really long. I have like 400 cowlicks. I did the "long" in the 70s/80s and have no desire dealing with that again. I could go straight crew cut, I guess, where even sorry-assed places like WalMart or Hair Cuttery could do it. 

 
mr. furley said:
having far more anxiety than is probably warranted when considering changing barbers

new place opened up downtown. i could run there over lunch for cuts again.

place i go to now is 25 minutes away by highway, and he keeps trimming his hours. not open after 6 weekdays, now closed on the weekends.....  pretty much gotta pull the trigger on moving to a new barber but it feels an awful lot like breaking up with a girlfriend.
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You know a lot of us have seen pics of you and your hair.  You’re not exactly sporting a pompadour.

 
General Malaise said:
Can we talk toll roads in here?

They don't have them out west.  I went back to Dallas last month, rented a car and followed my GPS to get around town.  It routed me on to some toll roads, but I never had a chance to actually, you know, PAY THE TOLLS.  So yesterday, I get a letter in the mail from the rental car agency and they say I didn't pay all of $3.48 in tolls.  They were kind enough to pay it on my behalf with an extra $30 'convenience' charge and because they're super friendly, they went ahead and billed my CC that I used for the rental.

What is this sorcery?  I wasn't even given a chance to pay the tolls.  How is one supposed to know?  QUESADILLA???????
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This is odd. When I’ve gone on toll roads in Texas, National charges my credit card when they get the pay by mail bill.  Have never had a convenience fee.  

What rental company?  I would call and ##### up a storm. 

 
I've been to most of the ####-hole countries in the world, but Belize is the first one where they make you stand in a puddle when you come off the plane.

Really.  No jetways so you come down the little stairway and they have a puddle set up that you have to stand in for five seconds or so.  The guy behind me asked why and I just heard "viruses" something something.

They also asked if you've been hiking anywhere in the last 30 days and whether you have any hiking boots with you.  Lying seemed to work out best there.

 
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Binky The Doormat said:
correct answer is no?

what is the point of this question - whether you may have picked up Lyme disease?
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I think it's related to the whole "stand in this puddle for a while" thing.  They're worried about stuff you might have on your shoes. :shrug:

We went with "no" and hoped they wouldn't notice (our hiking boots were packed), which they didn't.

ETA:  I know when mad cow disease was a concern that countries wanted to know if you'd visited farms.  This was broader, though, so I'm not sure what it was.

 
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krista4 said:
I think it's related to the whole "stand in this puddle for a while" thing.  They're worried about stuff you might have on your shoes. :shrug:

We went with "no" and hoped they wouldn't notice (our hiking boots were packed), which they didn't.

ETA:  I know when mad cow disease was a concern that countries wanted to know if you'd visited farms.  This was broader, though, so I'm not sure what it was.
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It sounds like a magical, medicated puddle that after 5 seconds totally removes all outside contagions.  Were you able to bring any of this special puddle back with you?

 
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