Nickle and dimin'

[Lee]

When you got off the ferry that was a very long line of cars waiting to board.

It generally is--you hope to be in the front. For us, we were first on...but last off the ferry!

We usually get motioned to the front if the workers can see us or they would squeeze us in the back.
Several years ago we took a Ferry from Kingston Ontario to Wolfe Island then another ferry to Cape Vincent NY.
When we got off the ferry on Wolfe Island we passed a line of cars getting off the island a couple miles long.
On the ferry to Cape Vincent I visited with a girl on a motorcycle who was local and used the ferry a lot.
I asked when she came up to a line too long for a ferry worker to see her if she rode to the front. She said she used to but now people get all pissy when she does it.
If there's a long line she would take the long way and cross the St Lawrence on a bridge further north.