ok Mrs Lexus.
Coming to a complete stop in the middle lane of the tollroad to rummage through your purse for toll change is not such a good idea. One day there will be a louder sound than my horn. See if you can make that sound stop with your middle finger.
Had a Prius signalling a right hand lane change into my bumper the other day. I did not yield (not required by law) and got a withering look from the old lady driving it.
Kills me the number of people who think a right blinker is a yield notice to anyone currently in the lane. Seems to work that way going left as well.
Just love that stuff. Just a few days ago, in heavy traffic, a young woman slowed down to a crawl a solid mile ahead of a toll to start rummaging for money. My wife refused to allow me to run the young darlin’ off the road.
Here’s something similar we see often:
ATM Procedures – Men vs Women
MALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to the cash machine while putting down your car window and pulling in mirror so you are sure you can reach.
2. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.
3. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.
4. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.
5. Drive away whole putting window up.
FEMALE PROCEDURE:
1. Drive up to cash machine.
2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.
3. Set parking brake, put the window down.
4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.
5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up
6. Attempt to insert card into machine.
7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.
8. Insert card.
9. Re-insert card the right way.
10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.
11. Enter PIN.
12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.
13. Enter amount of cash required.
14. Check makeup in rear view mirror.
15. Retrieve cash and receipt.
16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.
17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook.
18. Re-check makeup.
19. Drive forward 2 feet.
20. Reverse back to cash machine.
21. Retrieve card.
22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.
23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.
24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.
25. Redial person on cell phone.
26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.
27. Release Parking Brake.
Oh yeah, +1 on knucklehead… sigh
Knucklehead, sounds like you got behind one of the faster ones at the ATM! *grin*
Knucklehead…. you’re dangerously close to revealing the secret as to why they put braille on the drive-up ATM machines, I think?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
And that’s why I avoid drive-up ATMs like the plague.
Every now and then my walkup ATM is down and I scoot over to the driveup at the next nearest branch. I leave if there is a line.
The braille for a drive up ATM always makes me chuckle even though I know that it has nothing to do with drive up – they all have braille keys.
I’ve nearly got my bride trained, after these 30+ years, to put her window down and pull in the side mirror and get close enough to reach whatever drive up machine she is accessing. Almost. The whole pocketbook search and dump routine, however, is too ingrained to overcome.
OH! And my other favorite is standing behind a woman at a checkout in ANY store as they dig through their purse to count out and hand over the correct change. Can’t you just take change and move on? Put it in a jar when you get home? My wife always comments on how much money she “saved” in the change jar. She doesn’t save any money in the change jar! She manages the $1.99 of change in her purse. I’m the one who empties his pocket of change each evening and puts it in the jar.
Btw, you forgot the most important part: taking a balance when told they have insufficient funds, and then trying again anyway. I’ve seen some go through 3 iterations of that before giving up…