Every once in a while a plesant bit of the vernacular sneaks into an advertisement. Like this one for Northumberland Ferries:
In an industry that comes up with things like “in preparation for disembarkation,” to say “or just show up as usual” in an ad is something of a miracle. They could have said “if you don’t have a reservation you can still sail, but you must wait in line with everyone else” or “reservationless parties must queue.” Thankfully, they didn’t.
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In the old days just showing
In the old days just showing up as usual might have meant a 2 or 3 hours wait. Sadly in the past year, I have taken the ferry 4 or 5 times and have never had to wait.
I remember being in the car
I remember being in the car as a child when my parents drove into Wood Islands (from Charlottetown) saw the line-up and turned around and drove to Borden to take that ferry. Aaah the GOOD old days…
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