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Remember frantically fumbling for coins ”They’re forcing you to make a decision you should make \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n related Remember frantically fumbling for coins inside, under and around your seat, as you held up traffic in the exact-change lane at the Turnpike tollbooths? In a pathetically transparent attempt to cooerce people into using the $27.50 automatic-deduction transponders in the … Continue reading
\n inside, under and around your seat, as you held up traffic in the exact-change
\n lane at the Turnpike tollbooths? In a pathetically
\n transparent attempt to cooerce people into using the $27.50 automatic-deduction
\n transponders
\n in
\n the FastLane program, officials of the Mass Turnpike have removed all
\n exact-change lanes, leaving two options: FastLane or human tolltakers. Guess
\n which line takes forever. Guess who else thinks this stinks.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n freely,” says the ubiquitous Alan Dershowitz, a stalwart against creeping
\n transponderism. ”It’s not Big Brother yet,” he says, ”but it’s Big
\n Third Cousin.” <\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n
I’m really gonna miss those exact change baskets.One
\n time, some of my coins missed and fell to the pavement. I put my minvan
\n in reverse and carefully backed up to where they lay. Opening the door
\n to the van, I leanded down to pick them up, taking my foot off the
\n brake in the process. The van started slowly backward. The
\n open door snagged on a steel post and peeled back like the lid on a sardine
\n can. The Cambridge Youth Soccer team I was transporting at the time thought
\n it was hilarious.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Sam Allis column in
\n the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"