Toll collectors - nostalgia for lost human touch

[kphoger]

Gloves might also be for our protection.  A sick person hands in money, the toll collector hands it back out to you, your child sticks it in his mouth and gets sick....

[formulanone]

A sick person hands in money, the toll collector hands it back out to you, your child sticks it in his mouth and gets sick....

Feeding a kid money is a bad investment.

[agentsteel53]

Gloves might also be for our protection.  A sick person hands in money, the toll collector hands it back out to you, your child sticks it in his mouth and gets sick....

unless the gloves are explicitly coated with a germicide, they will not make an impact on a two-hop transmission like that.

[kphoger]

Sorry, didn't think that through.  Let's try that again.

Sick toll collector hands you money, you get sick.

[djsinco]

I should mention that I usually fill up with gas at at the grocery store.  So all prepaying makes me do is walk about 15 feet over to the window and back.

Do you buy all your groceries at a gas station to balance that?

[kphoger]

I suppose you could say that, since the gas station and grocery store are the same company.

[jeffandnicole]

Sorry, didn't think that through.  Let's try that again.

Sick toll collector hands you money, you get sick.

Because sick patron handed toll collecter money; got toll collector sick.

[kphoger]

My head is reeling....

[agentsteel53]

Because sick patron handed toll collecter money; got toll collector sick.

it is a little-known fact that toll collectors are not allowed to ever leave their booth, for any reason. 

[Alps]

Because sick patron handed toll collecter money; got toll collector sick.

it is a little-known fact that toll collectors are not allowed to ever leave their booth, for any reason. 

Other way around. Toll collectors are in fact prohibited from leaving the CHAIR. The booth was built around the chair for their protection.

[djsinco]

 

Sounds like an OSHA ergonomics violation to me.

One more reason for Chris Christie to get rid of 'em altogether!

[Alps]

 

Sounds like an OSHA ergonomics violation to me.

One more reason for Chris Christie to get rid of 'em altogether!

Well, he'll have to be reelected to have a shot at that, and there's no guarantee it will happen in the next 4 years. The timetable for all-electronic on the Turnpike is indefinite (and not even all that definite on the Parkway), so collectors are probably around for at least one more election cycle. Who's up in 2017/2018?

[djsinco]

In the early 1970's, there was a toll collector in the GSP who was selling weed to those who had the secret password. He worked at night on the northernmost northbound toll barrier (Bergen County.)

How's that for nostalgia?