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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: Nickel and dimed?
The toll thing is interesting. We don't have those around here, but we do have taxes that other states don't. Until I came to this board I didn't know that it wasn't the norm to pay your county's standard tax rate on food (here it's 7-8%).
I will never again have an auto payment option for our tolls. Lesson learned for sure.
Back to the OP - I hate paying for water. I know that's crazy, but I grew up with a well so we never paid for water growing up. Now I live in a small town and have to pay for it. I wouldn't mind IF our water wasn't constantly brown with a foul smell like they can't balance out the chemicals. You can definitely tell when there is too much chlorine or sulfur in the water. Discoloration and smell happens at least once a week and we get a notice at least once a month saying it failed some sort of state standard, yet I'm still forced to pay over $200 a quarter for water that really isn't drinkable. H works at a water treatment plant I keep meaning to have him take a sample to work to test it and make sure it's within legal limits.
One irritation that occurred for us in 2016, was a toll in CA. We were from out of town and had rented a van. We knew the road we were on was a toll road, except there were no plazas to pay via cash or credit card (and didn't know this until we were already driving on it). Apparently, there are these overhead monitors, and if you don't have an Ez-pass reader, they charge you the toll and register it to your license plate.
As we zoomed passed, WAAAAY off to one side I saw a road sign that read, in super tiny print, as we're driving at 65 MPH for rented vehicles to send your toll to XYZ website or whatever. I had no time to jot it down. But I realized there was a website and sought it out later online. But, the info it wanted to pay the fee would not recognize the rental information we provided. So we could not pay it. We figured the toll would get charged back to the rental car company and passed along to us. Oh. It. Did. $150 in fines and fees from the State of CA.
I wager this happens a lot to out-of-towners in rental cars. It's such a stiff because either they don't see the website sign or like us, they do, but they can't pay it. Too bad for CA the nearly "illegal" toll plan to "steal" from unsuspecting travelers, still hasn't gotten their state out of debt. We paid it all rather than fighting it. I mean, who has the time for that?!? Won't go to CA again just on principle.
@MommyLiberty5013, there's one toll road nearish where my mom lives in So. CA. When I'm visiting, I refuse to take it because I find it super confusing, lol.
If a person already has an EZ-Pass, no worries. But, otherwise, you have to occasionally take these "off ramps" where the pay stations are. But, if you don't normally take that road, you don't know where the off ramps are until it is usually too late to go down one.