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COMMENTARY
Toll plaza cashiers can share plenty of stories
about what they’ve seen over the years. Above,
and right, Kaz Jones says “you never know
what you’re going to see down here.”
passed by, and the regulars they
grew to recognize and sort of got
to know. Some of the drivers knew
them, too. Some even brought
snacks for their favorite cashiers or
asked about them when they were
sick or changed shifts.
The toll plaza workers remember
when fistfights broke out among
drivers who turned road rage into
toll plaza rage. Some remember
when drivers died at the plaza in
terrible wrecks. Bent recalls that a
baby was born at the plaza in an
ambulance summoned after the
parents stopped at the toll lane and
said theyd never make it to the hos
pital in time.
Cashier Kaz Jones of Sandy
Springs remembers the women in
cars who wanted his number. He
even went out with a couple of
them, he admits, grinning sheep
ishly.
And then there are the scandal
ous tales. Some may had involved
alcohol. Some may have required
it. Cashier Roslyn McDonald re
members when, late one night, a
man jumped from a car stopped in
the toll lane and ran down Ga. 400,
removing his clothes as he went. The driver paid
the toll, drove off and collected the naked streaker
a few hundred yards down the road.
Jones recalls a night when a female driver
grinned mischievously at him, then gestured to
ward the back seat of her car. There, he saw two
women wearing nothing but their smiles. “You
never know what you’re going to see down here,”
Jones said.
Soon enough, there’ll be next to nothing left
to see. The plaza will be gone. The tunnel will
remain, a way to route utility lines beneath the
road. But the sound of falling quarters has ended.
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