The credit card fraud prank is pretty funny, too.

http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/

"You have no idea how strange it is to have the teenage counter clerk at Bertucci's watching you scribble fiercely on a piece of paper, as if you wished to purge the evil that is your signature. Then I smiled and handed him back his pen."

-janelane

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Palindrome wrote:
] ] Recently, while giving away yet another $1.00 of my
] ] hard-earned money for the privilege of driving into town,
] ] I wondered: how flexible are they about the tolls? So I
] ] decided to undertake a series of experiments.
]
] ] There are three ways to pay tolls on the "Mass Pike," as
] ] we call it:
]
] ] 1) You can drive through the "Fast Lane," which is a
] ] computerized system that detects a small device that you
] ] keep on your windshield, while pelting your car with
] ] gamma rays and slowly giving you cancer of the prostate.
] ] All Fast Lanes require that you slow your car to 15 mph,
] ] and some make you stop completely, giving new meaning to
] ] the word "Fast."
]
] ] 2) You can pay cash to the friendly toll booth operator,
] ] who will give you change, and, if you're lucky, a surly
] ] grunt.
]
] ] 3) If you have exact change, you can use the "baskets,"
] ] which are big scoop-shaped buckets into which you throw
] ] your money. The money slides down a chute, where it is
] ] then processed by either highly efficient money-sorting
] ] machinery, or financially astute elves. It's a mystery.
]
] If you have a few minutes read through it. It is rather funny.
] I especially like the last experiment and letters.

RE: Avoiding Tolls On The Massachusetts Turnpike