The other day, while waiting for the boat
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conulyI happened to be standing next to a pair of adolescents. First the girl remarked that she couldn't believe she'd lived on the Island 16 years and never taken the Ferry (I couldn't believe it either!) and then her friend, clearly trying to impress her with his experience, found himself in a loop, repeating "It can take them a long time to get off" at least three times. (It CAN take them a long time to get off the boat! There's always somebody who thinks the announcement to disembark wasn't actually directed at them). But I don't think she noticed, so that's all right :)
I hope they had fun! The boat is really the most affordable date in town, and certainly fun if you don't take it every day.
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I hope they had fun! The boat is really the most affordable date in town, and certainly fun if you don't take it every day.
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Date: 2017-07-26 08:50 am (UTC)Edit: and I apparently misquoted: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/14404/recuerdo
These days, can you do that without paying an additional fare?
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Date: 2017-07-26 11:09 am (UTC)She didn't believe that was what it was until she did some checking. :-)
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Date: 2017-07-27 03:30 am (UTC)(It was a gift and if we'd gotten a formal picture of the kid at that age then I suppose we might've used it, but... it's in the closet. Never worn.)
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