At the front desk of the Laventura, a disdainful blond woman provided her with a handful of devices for entry into her new life: apartment and mailbox keys, garage-gate remote, car tag, a code for accessing inner sanctums bearing keypads.

NEWYORKER: Shauntrelle

"Golden Gate's toll-takers deal with people of all walks of life, new drivers and older motorists, wealthy and broke, friendly and cranky, and rushed and leisurely, " said the local news website Marin Independent Journal in an editorial.

BBC: Golden Gate: Electronic tolls for San Francisco bridge