To the worker at the toll booth at the MacKay Bridge who wouldn’t let me across yesterday because I didn’t have a dollar on me. You’re a complete moron.
OK so I didn’t have the money so you wouldn’t let me through. Fair enough. That’s not the reason for this bitch. I offered to give you my plate number as I have in the past with other tollbooth attendants, you say that the policy is, no pay, no cross. Fine. You told me you’d let me through the gate but to take the exit and not to cross the bridge. I asked “how do you know I won’t just cross?” You told me if I did that you would radio the bridge police. Fine. So far, you’re just doing your job, I understand. The following is the meat and potatoes of this bitch.
For one, get a hearing aid, I had to repeat everything I said to you at least twice, I was speaking as loud as I could. You’re deaf as a post.
When I became angry and said, “Fine, fuck you, just let me through,” and proceeded towards the gate, instead of letting me through to turn off into the exit off the bridge, you just let me sit at the gate, while about 10 to 15 cars piled up behind me. I honk my horn, loudly and for good 5-8 seconds. No reaction. I scream at you “HELLLOOOOO?!” No reaction. “OH, OK, JUST FUCKING IGNORE ME!!” I yelled, extremely frustrated at this point. Still nothing. Only when I exited my car and started to walk back to your booth did ANYONE acknowledge that I existed. At that point two guys with badges approached me on foot. I calmly explained to them that I couldn’t pay the toll and that I was going to exit the off ramp but the attendant wasn’t raising the gate to let me do so. They told you to open the gate and you finally did. Why did it take me exiting my vehicle with a murderous look on my face for you to press a fucking button? What the fuck did you think you were accomplishing besides making everyone upset and wasting our time?
What the fuck was going through your head? I thought about going back to your booth to argue with you after I backtracked to my apartment to get your precious loonie.
Maybe you thought I was going to disobey your orders and just drive across the bridge. There was nothing you could have done about that besides call bridge police. Either way you had to lift the gate. What the fuck did making me wait there for a few minutes completely ignoring me accomplish? There is no logical explanation as far as I’m concerned, and the fact that I had to waste my time and gas just so that you assholes could get your FUCKING DOLLAR, RIGHT THEN AND THERE and not at a later date is absolutely ridiculous. I was on my way to the hospital by the way, in pain, and really wasn’t in the mood for that bullshit. —Shove Your 4 Quarters Up Your Ass
This article appears in Jul 21-27, 2011.
Wow. You sound like a real asshole, OP. If you verbally berated me like you did that poor bridge worker, who you admit was only doing their job since you didn’t have the dollar you know you need to cross the bridge, I’d have treated you exactly the same way he/she did. Respect is a two-way street.
Maybe you should have put a dollars less gas in your tank. If you had talked to me like that I would have closed the lane to have my break. Ya fucking douchebag!!!
If you’re too stupid to take a loonie or buy a MacPass, drive the hell through Bedford and stop fucking the commute up for everyone else. Also, anger management; look into it.
Another self-entitled twat.
People like you, OP, are what’s wrong with this fucking world. Impatient, full of rage and self-entitlement, like a goddamn screaming child – I wish to fuck someone had shoved a fistful of loonies into your stupid, immature gob.
The more noise you make, the louder you scream, the bigger ass you are…the longer I’ll take, I might even forget about you.
Carry some change in your car.
Get a Macpass. And don’t be such a jerk.
OP, they are trained to delay you while the bridge police were getting in position to bust you.
I think the only proper punishment for such an arsehole is to be banned from crossing either bridge for 10 years. You could think about what it means to be an adult in the time it takes to drive through Bedford. There’s also the refugee tactic popular for panhandling at European tolls where you block the lane and bum money from everyone stuck behind you, desperate to get moving.
It’s Friday evening, I’m on the deck having a cold one and I have to read this shite? You should be allowed to cross the bridge, but only half way, at which time the bridge cops get to launch your blotchy entitled arse over the parapet.
so you were just driving along and realized you were on the bridge?
Um… no pay, no cross.
Take the bedford highway and go around if you don’t got the toll.
What makes YOU so special that you get to cross without paying the toll? And since you’ve done it before….
You’re a twat, OP. Plain and simple.
Keep a roll of quarters in your car or get a fucking macpass.
Cheese and fucking rice.
YOU are the asshole here who held up all those cars, NOT the toll worker (who, in my experience are all pretty damn awesome — I’ve never run into one that wasn’t a delight so fuck you, asshole).
You need a punch in the junk, OB.
you are without the slightest doubt in the world o.p., a ginormous fucking douchebag asshole, and i think the other two are more useful than you are. what the fuck gives you this type of fucking entitlement. is it a racial thing here, or just that you feel everybody owes you a giving. i wish the fuck i would have been behind you, i would have shoved your sorry fucking ass thru the gate and right off the fucking bridge. i hope they remember you in future, you useless piece of fucking shit.
OMFG, you actually drove onto a toll bridge without any money to pay the toll. What the fuck were you thinking. Yeah right I see it all day long, people without money tossing license plates out the driver window trying to make it fit into the change bin, or sorry ” I have no money, you can have my watch as collateral. This isn’t a fucking poker game. If you can afford a car, you can afford money to cross a toll bridge, you fucking ignoramus.
Yeah. What they all said.
The new toll takers – no licence plate refused:
http://shotnottaken.files.wordpress.com/20…
Idiot.
I pulled through the MacPass lane one day only to find it wasn’t letting me through. Then I realized my pass had fallen off my window and was no where to be seen. I apologized and told the bridge worker I’d happily pull over and dig out a loonie to pay for my crossing if he’d let me through so I wasn’t holding up traffic. He politely told me not to worry about it, this one was on him and to have a nice day.
I guess what I’m getting at here is you’re the asshat, not the bridge worker.
OB, you are totally in the wrong here. You swore at the attendant who was just doing his/her job.. you held up traffic so you could show off your self-entitlement. I’m sure everyone behind you hated your fucking guts.
If you don’t pay, you don’t cross. It’s simple. Paying to cross is not something new. Give them your license plate ID? How does that pay the toll..?
Maybe if you hadn’t been such a jerk they would have let you cross.
LOL @ the hobo trying to cross the bridge without the toll. Ride your bike next time.
Hey Survivor, sell your vehicle if you cannot scrounge a buck.
Nobody would be stupid enough to pull a stunt like this and then come here to write about it.
Will the real OP please stand up?
if you hit the toll booth before the bridge then you were on the macdonald and theres no reason other then lazyness that you didn’t stop and get money to pay the toll at the bank 100 ft from the bridge. You’re a douch OP.
“Survivor”
Nii-i-ice!
OP, you’re a fucking idiot. Why don’t you have a MacPass? Don’t you have any money in your wallet or in the car? You deserve the treatment you received. Too bad the other drivers didn’t get our of their cars and give you a massive ass whooping for being stupid.
Op has learned his lesson… he’s not special and he has to pay like everyone else.
Poster-children for 2″ cock syndrome…
Might as well add my bit, too: Maybe he eventually ignored you because he figured out what an asshole you were pretty quickly, he was ‘if that candy ass wants something to bitch about I’ll make sure he has something…’
Just keep a loonie on hand OP! That’s the thing about tolls, you pay to get through them.
In the case of the bridge tolls, well the city is still paying for the bridges so they take that loonie seriously.
You don’t need to cross a bridge to get to a hospital.
You’re an idiot OP.
OB , you screwed up… & trying to ‘blame’ the bridge attendant doesn’t make you look any better.
I have a real bitch about a couple of the bridge attendants…they think they are working at a tourism booth.
Last week one guy got out of the booth to look at a map in a minivan in front of me, during the evening rush around 4:30/5 pm
YOUR NOT A FUCKING TOURIST BUREAU…You’re a drone making change & you can’t even do that right !
Bring your dollar man! Take your plate number as an IOU? Pretty sure that’s not listed as an option anywhere. Your bitch made me laugh. Thanks
So what about their “NOT A FUCKING TOURIST BUREAU,” more-on?
Wow, OP.
You’re kind of an idiot, aren’t you?
I feel bad for the bridge worker.
Wow. Just.. wow.
It’s always everyone else’s fault, isn’t it?
“I offered to give you my plate number as I have in the past with other tollbooth attendants”
really? so you’ve done this in the past? time to get a macpass since you constantly forget your change to pay the toll.
idiot
It costs a dollar to cross the bridge. Or a valid Macpass. You don’t have the dollar or a MacPass, don’t take the fucking bridge, you asshat. Drive through Bedford or stay home and die. Either way, you deserved what happened to you and your refusal to accept the consequences of your own stupidity just show how ignorant you really are.
I called the bridge supervisor and she agreed that he should have just let me through, that’s what she would have done. I get cursed at at work too, doesn’t give me the right to not do my job.
He had to lift the gate either way so I could get off the bridge, and he did when I eventually got out of my car. So the question is why should it take that?
If I really wanted to be a dick I could have asked to speak to his supervisor and made it a 20+ minute ordeal.
I don’t think that cursing in frustration makes me the worst person ever to exist, but thanks guys. I thought maybe the pains I was having in my kidney and groin were more important than the city’s fucking dollar. My mistake. The bitch wasn’t that he wouldn’t let me across the bridge, I get that.
But why hold everyone up even more? Again, the supervisor agreed with me that he shouldn’t have done that. He did it because I pissed him off and that’s textbook unprofessional. I was having a really bad day. Groin pains will do that to you.
Yes I could have gone to a Dartmouth hospital but I’ve heard horror stories about wait times and the service they provide there. My experience in Halifax was great. I was gonna write a love about it.
Not everyone is going to have a dollar on them at all times FFS, and I don’t want to give my credit card number to these people for a MacPass that I’d barely use. Not all of us have credit cards either. I thought he’d let me through and take my plate number as they have done in the past. The fact that he didn’t sucked but as I stated in the bitch I understood that he was just doing his job. I shouldn’t have cursed at him but it really wasn’t a “berating” like some of you are imagining. I doubt he even heard it since he could barely hear what I was saying to him all along. I thought I was polite until he started talking about bridge police and I became annoyed. I really didn’t get mad till he just kept me there and completely ignored me. Just because a customer is difficult to deal with doesn’t mean you can treat them how you would on your own time. He’s got a public interaction, tax funded job and he handled the situation poorly, and his boss agrees with me there.
And you all can suck my ass.
jk I still luvs ya’s.
But tommy — you said this wasn’t the first time you’ve done this.
And you can hook your macpass up to your bank account.
No matter how you try to justify it, you were the asshole in this situation.
If your kidney/groin pains were so bad, call an ambulance — otherwise have a dollar on you or go through bedford.
You might as well’ve taken a post it and written “IOU” on it and handed it to the toll guy.
I like ya, Tommy, and I hope everything’s OK, but your bitch is kind of lame.
I can sympathize with the kidney stone pain… if that’s what it was…
it truly is quite unbearable nearly all the time.
seriously though dude… keep quarters in the car.
there’s usually a little flip place to put them or something…
it’s times like these when you need them that you’ll be glad you did and will save everyone a headache.
What don’t you guys understand? It’s not that he wouldn’t let me through, I REPEAT: IT IS NOT THE FACT THAT I COULDN’T GET ON THE BRIDGE WITHOUT MY DOLLAR THAT PISSED ME OFF! I mean it pissed me off yes, but I understood.
It’s that he let me sit there and he ignored me like I was some kind of fucking little kid. His boss agreed that he should not have done that, and said that she would not have.
In fact she said she would have just let me through, especially where I was going to the hospital (I didn’t mention that to the worker, in all fairness).
I really wasn’t yelling or screaming at him at all until I drove up to the gate, sat there for a while, beeped the horn, and waited longer. I was pissed off yes, but I hate when people say “you shouldn’t have talked to him like that, what do you expect?”
I expect him to do his job, no matter how nice or shitty I am to him because that’s what I and many other taxpayers do. If we all stopped doing our jobs every time someone got upset with us our economy would crumble. And I didn’t even get that mad at him!
When he said he’d let me through but I had to take the exit it caught me off guard and I asked him out of legitimate curiosity what was stopping me from just crossing. Maybe I came off as testy because I had to repeat everything I said like 3 times cuz he couldn’t hear for shit. And if he was justified in making me wait there why did he let me through as soon as I got out of my car?
The officers and his supervisors agreed that he was wrong to do that AND I AGREE that he was just doing his job in not letting me cross, but by letting me sit there instead of letting me through so I could get off the bridge to grab a loonie, he was not doing his job which was to press that fucking button, and he let a big line up pile up behind just because I hurt his little ego.
Trust me, it would have pissed you off too. I’d bet the farm on it.
It’d be one thing if he made eye contact or something with me signaled that he’d be a minute, but he completely ignored me which is plain old unprofessional.
I should never have had to get out of my car. How long would I have waited there burning gas if I had just been passive about it like many of you seem to think you would have been? Buncha ol’ first-stone-castin ass mofuckas.
People get upset, and when your job is to deal with people, you act professionally, even when they don’t, cuz you’re on their time, not the other way around. You guys are all absolutely right, I should have had the change in my car, but I was in a hurry to get where I was going and I thought that since they did it before they’d do it again. They had never mentioned to me before that they don’t normally do this or anything they either just said “go ahead on through” or “let me just get your plate number”
I bet you would have all done the same when you’re a) in immense pain and b) Taking time from work that you have to make up.
I’m sure I’m not the first or last person who has gone through that booth without the fare. It happens.
If you don’t agree with me fine, but at least know what you’re disagreeing with. Did he have every right and responsibility to enforce the policy? Absolutely. Was he being a total dick by letting me sit there and ignoring me wasting mine and those people in the cars behind me’s time? Yes, he was. He was being a dick, and not because The Bridge Commission says he has to be, but because he felt like it. He was not representing The Bridge Commission in his actions, he was acting on his personal impulses which is the definition of unprofessional. Many of you seem totally fine with that. I demand better because I, like many of you have had to grin and smile and be gracious to a customer you wanted to drag into the woods and beat to death with your bear hands. It’s called a job.
On a normal day it might not have been worthy of a bitch but on that particular day it burned me, and I just didn’t see any logic to it at all. If you’re gonna let me through, let me the fuck through. There’s only 2 possible outcomes. Either lift the gate, or don’t. If he can lift the gate after I get out of my car he can lift it when I drive it up to it. I wouldn’t have written a bitch just because I couldn’t pay to get on the bridge and got turned down. That was insult to injury.
And I usually do keep change in the car, fyi. But shit happens ffs. Anyways like I said you’re all entitled to your opinions and I don’t think any less of any of you for expressing them. I’m used to not always agreeing with everybody, believe it or not.