Paying Tolls worse than ATM Monkeys

What I see more often than ATM monkeys are people who take an hour to pay a toll - on a highway, or parking lot etc. Drive up, give them money, drive on. Worse case scenario, give them a card, 60 secnds more max. But some people are up there so long, I wonder: Are they filling out some sort of loan application? Telling their life story? Learning a new language. Of course pulling over to a different line means you have invited worse delays. When I finally get up there, I feel like asking: "What took so long with that dude? Was he your long lost cousin, and you wanted to catch up on the last 20 years since you saw him?

Originally posted by impatient
What I see more often than ATM monkeys are people who take an hour to pay a toll - on a highway, or parking lot etc. Drive up, give them money, drive on. Worse case scenario, give them a card, 60 secnds more max. But some people are up there so long, I wonder: Are they filling out some sort of loan application? Telling their life story? Learning a n ...[text shortened]... as he your long lost cousin, and you wanted to catch up on the last 20 years since you saw him?

Originally posted by impatient
What I see more often than ATM monkeys are people who take an hour to pay a toll - on a highway, or parking lot etc. Drive up, give them money, drive on. Worse case scenario, give them a card, 60 secnds more max. But some people are up there so long, I wonder: Are they filling out some sort of loan application? Telling their life story? Learning a n ...[text shortened]... as he your long lost cousin, and you wanted to catch up on the last 20 years since you saw him?

Originally posted by impatient
What I see more often than ATM monkeys are people who take an hour to pay a toll - on a highway, or parking lot etc. Drive up, give them money, drive on. Worse case scenario, give them a card, 60 secnds more max. But some people are up there so long, I wonder: Are they filling out some sort of loan application? Telling their life story? Learning a n ...[text shortened]... as he your long lost cousin, and you wanted to catch up on the last 20 years since you saw him?

Originally posted by divegeester
In England we are happy to wait and queue. Queuing with restraint is the defining quality of a civilization.

tolls are one of the most inefficient ways of collecting revenue

you need to maintain lots of toll plazas - you need to pay people to sit there and collect tolls - it forces everyone to stop and wait which wastes fuel and time.