# If you can't pay on the turnpike....

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 6, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cant-pay-on-the-turnpike/363407 "2006-07-06T19:42:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cant-pay-on-the-turnpike/363407/21 "2006-07-07T17:56:40Z")

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> [@AWB](#):
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> Of course, they spent $0.74 postage on getting my $0.35. :rolleyes:

It ain’t the money, it’s the principle of the thing.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-cant-pay-on-the-turnpike/363407/22 "2006-07-07T20:28:17Z")

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My mom used to collect toll on the Golden Gate Bridge. If you just blew through, your picture would be taken and you’d get a bill in the mail. If you merely forgot cash or whatever, they’d hold up the lanes to the right and direct you to park at the toll office and you’d go in and pay (or I guess get an envelope or something).

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