toll booth

is a manmade bottleneck installed at the entrance to major highways, bridges and tunnels, causing us to drum on the dashboard while we observe that line we've chosen is invariably the slowest, regardless of its apparent length.

A manmade bottleneck installed at the entrance to major highways, bridges and tunnels, causing us to drum on the dashboard while we observe the Cynic's Law of Line Selection ("The line one chooses at a tollbooth or supermarket checkout is invariably the slowest, regardless of its apparent length"), along with Corollary A (''If the line one chooses is not already the slowest, it automatically becomes so as soon as one chooses it") and Corollary B ("The amount of time one must wait in line varies in direct proportion to the urgency with which one must pass through it").

is a place at which, if the line one chooses is not already the slowest, it automatically becomes so as soon as one chooses it.

is a place where the amount of time one must wait in line varies in direct proportion to the urgency with which one must pass through it.

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