What's your biggest pet peeve?

[thetaj]

Originally Posted by ADqtPiMel

Totally. I don't drive often, but I'm totally fine in DC proper. Put me in Virginia and I'm a total wreck (though I blame Virginia's aversion to ANY KIND OF SIGNAGE).

I still have nightmares about paying toll after toll to do u-turn after u-turn trying to get to Dulles

ETA: same can be said about trying to get to/go anywhere from UCF T_T every time I go to Orlando I check my mail for a week half expecting a ticket for some toll booth violation lol

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by thetaj

I still have nightmares about paying toll after toll to do u-turn after u-turn trying to get to Dulles

ETA: same can be said about trying to get to/go anywhere from UCF T_T every time I go to Orlando I check my mail for a week half expecting a ticket for some toll booth violation lol

Funny story about lack of signage. My co-worker met a friend at lunch in Mexicantown in Detroit. We can generally get there, eat and get back to work in plenty of time. However, they've rebuilt the freeway ramps around there and the signs aren't all back up. He thought he was going the right way to get back to the freeway but he was actually on the road that goes to the bridge to Canada. He got to the duty free shop and there was NO WAY to just turn around and not get on the bridge. He didn't have enough money for the tolls to go both ways and didn't have his passport or birth certificate with him so he could NOT go to Canada and come back. He talked to the lady at Duty Free and she referred him the customs guy. He had to wait in line with all the cars waiting to go over the bridge to Canada. When he got up there, the guy directed him to a certain spot, behind a gate and told him that the lady who can open the gate had just gone to lunch and it would be an hour until she back! He had to sit there, in his car, at the gate, until she got back. He got back to work at 3. He had left around 12:30. He had called my boss to tell him what happened so my boss wrote on the white board outside his cube "Being held at Guantanamo"

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by thetaj

ETA: same can be said about trying to get to/go anywhere from UCF T_T every time I go to Orlando I check my mail for a week half expecting a ticket for some toll booth violation lol

Yes!

When I was in Orlando, I was with my boss and we were driving to the airport. We approached a toll (there was only one booth) - which was $0.75. We only had bills on us, and we figured there would be a person working the toll booth. No one was there. We tried to look quickly for change in our purses (we knew we wouldn't find any in the rental car we were driving), but we only had a few nickles and some pennies between us, so after a minute or two, we just drove right through it.

Not since then had I ever come to a toll plaza where there wasn't at least one person working it.