[gstelmack]

If you've got a theme park, and on your website you advertise two close hotels with shuttle service, why on earth would you make the shuttles drop off outside the main gate and force your visitors to walk all the way across the parking lot to enter? Especially on a rainy day?

If you run a mass transit system, and you are converting from only allowing these special SmartTrip cards to allowing any credit card, and you note on your website that the Largo Maryland station is one of the few that allows you to pay for parking with a credit card, and inside the Largo station is a big sign touting the fact that you can now pay with a credit card, then why would you not only have only the south parking garage allow you to exit with a credit card, but also shut down for construction the only connection between the north and the south parking garage, thus forcing someone who did his research to re-park, walk back in to the station, and have to pay the $5 fee in addition to the parking fee to buy one of those SmartTrip cards to get out of the parking garage?

We should have driven to Six Flags and taken the shuttle to the Metro stop, and instead did the opposite. Sigh.