A fork of Rural Dictionary
When three or more people are riding in a car and they drive through a tunnel, all the windows are rolled down and everyone screams out the windows all the way through the tunnel. Their shrieking reverberates off the walls of the tunnel causing quite a ruckus.
Bum #1: Listen to those damn fools yelling out their windows!
Bum#2: They can't help it, Earl. I think they got that disease.
Bum #1: What disease, Fred?
Bum #2: That there Car Pool Tunnel Syndrome.
Bum #1: You're a fucking idiot, Fred.
Repetitive-stress injury afflicting attendants at highway and tunnel tool booths.
Chuckie O'Brien, the head of the New York State toll-takers union, has filed a lawsuit to force the state to recognize car pool-tunnel syndrome as an injury coverable by disability insurance and the state workers' compensation system.
when two or more people carpool (ride together to the same destination) primarily for the purpose of
1) saving gas
2) saving time and/or
3) getting to go on the carpool lane.
Dude! California car pool with me, and we'll reach there in half the time 'cause we can use the carpool lane!