Toll Theft

About a month back, I was going to San Fransisco. On that road I have pay toll at one place. There are several lanes out there. (Almost 10 lanes)

To save people's time, every single system is trying to improve by making use of technology. There are few lanes which are not operated by humans. It is called Fast Track Lanes (operated by some company I guess). The sticker that you may put on your car is scanned by some scanners out there and then you can just pass through those fast lanes where no one interrupts you.

When I was getting closer to the lanes, I did not realize that I am approaching the fast track lane . I wanted to change the lane. Somehow, due to the continuous honks by the car behind my car, I kept moving little bit forward and at one time I reached the place where I could not change the lane and I was made to pass through the fast track lane. Now, this is called as a Violation, Theft of toll.

I was so upset about it and was sure that I will get some letter at home about this and I might have to pay some fine.

Finally, I received it last weekend and then I paid that fine online. The funny part of this sad story was - When I made the payment, I received an email of confirmation which had following sentence -

"Dear XXXX,

Your Violation payment has been processed successfully.

Thank you.

We appreciate your Business!"

Sigh!!!! Ironic.

(To be frank, I am exaggerating ;-)) They did not say '...appreciate business...'

However, the letter that came to my house had some funny words as "If you are violating it first time then open your account online and make the payment." etc..

My day ended with a mix emotion where one side I thought, thankfully I got rid of the unknown-fine-amount suspense while on other side I had to make the payment for some violation. The violation which was, of course, unintentional. But A crime is a crime! You have to pay the price always. I had to pay too and So I did!

~KrupA