
20/06/2025
My true story of the day!
🚧 TRAPPED at the TOLL – a true motorway mystery 🚧
Today I had a very “interesting” experience at the péage in Moissac…
Pulled up to pay my toll like a good citizen, popped my card into the machine… and it promptly swallowed it whole.
Then, as if to add insult to injury — the barrier closed behind me. I was officially imprisoned in a concrete rectangle of doom. 😳
There I sat for 45 minutes, stuck in my little toll booth prison, while someone was dispatched all the way from Toulouse to free me (and return my hostage card). The lovely lady even said I didn’t have to pay the €6 toll, as a sort of emotional compensation, I assume. 🥲
I have no idea why the machine betrayed me. Was it the heat? Was it my card’s bad attitude? Was I meant to learn something? Probably.
Lesson learned: Always pack snacks in case of tollbooth incarceration.
Or maybe: Sometimes you just have to wait it out and hope someone from Toulouse has your back. 😂