Zug.com had some fun testing the limits of the toll collectors on the Massachusetts Turnpike. He tried throwing different amounts of money into the collection funnel, taping an IOU to the funnel, attaching two stickers for rapper 50 Cent onto the funnel, and my favorite, using non US currency.
Experiment #5. For my next experiment, I made sure to check the toll booth sign, which reads "$1.00 COINS ONLY NO BILLS PENNIES OR CANADIAN COINS." (With all that toll money, you'd think they could afford some punctuation.) Fortunately, the sign makes no mention of other foreign coins, which is the loophole I used for my next experiment. I consulted an online currency calculator to get up-to-the-minute exchange rates, then tossed in the following coins:
1 Indian Rupee ($0.02 U.S.)
15 Thai Baht ($0.36 U.S.)
11 Singapore cents ($0.06 U.S.)
1 Finnish Marka and 200 Italian Lira (no longer used, since the Euro came to town)
That only added up to 44 cents, so I threw in a couple of Chuck E. Cheese tokens as well.
When I went through this time, I heard the toll booth operator shout something that sounded like, "WALP!" I had been trying my little experiments at the same toll booth, so maybe he recognized my car, or maybe he was choking on a thick slice of ham. I didn't stick around to find out — I got the WALP out of there.
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