Triumphant Return of B.O.W.

Technically these bammas pissed me off last week, but since I have only recently discovered "Eatmyballs" I could only bitch about them now. The Bamma of the Week are the Port Authority employees who work at the Holland Tunnel.

Let me begin by saying that trying to enter NYC from New Jersey is torture. It doesn't matter whether you've chosen a bridge or tunnel, either way the view sucks, the traffic is almost completely at a standstill and it costs a lot of money. This is an infuriating situation even in my tiny Sentra, so I knew I was in for trouble when I would be trying to accomplish this feat in a 16' long Budget truck.

After much deliberation, it was decided we would take the Holland Tunnel. The back up for the Holland Tunnel began about a mile before the toll. It took us 90 minutes to move that entire mile, which means that we got to hear "Big Girls Don't Cry" like 5 times. Awesome.

As we pulled up to the toll, the toll lady informed us that trucks were not allowed in the Holland Tunnel. The entire 90 minutes we had been waiting to get to the toll there had been absolutely no indication that such a restriction existed. In fact, there were signs that actually said that trucks had to pay $6 and up at the toll booth, thus indicating that some trucks were allowed. As an added bonus, the Port Authority police officers were completely unhelpful in directing us to the Lincoln Tunnel (which FYI, is your best bet from NJ to NY truck travel), simply saying "Follow that van there." "That van" by the way was just some van that was also being rerouted. Seriously officer -- you can't even give me the name of a goddamned road? A highway number? A cardinal direction? ANYTHING that will be constant and that doesn't include trying to follow some strangers in a van who may or may not be going to the same place?

In the end, we got the truck to New York. It took an extra two hours, and we ended up in Hackensack briefly, but we did it. And we did it with zero help from the ignorant Bammas at Port Authority.