Time & Space Family Blog: You Know You Are In Ocraoke When...

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

You know you are in Ocracoke when:

...your graduating class from high school has three people.
...the main food brand at the grocery store is Our Family.
...when you ask if the ground beef is fresh, the grocery man says that he ground it that morning.
...cheese packaged by the grocery store has no expiration date.
...only one restaurant is open in the winter.
...there is no McDonalds anywhere.
...any way off or onto the island is by ferry.
...when they do road work, the detour is for four-wheel drive vehicles only as it is onto the beach.
...the weather channel has the orange and blue graphics from ten years ago on the local forecast.
...every other local mailbox has some version of O'Neal or O'Neil or O'Niel.
...because of no zoning you can duck hunt off of your back porch.
...one of the local folk group's sings of the evils of computers.
...the only place open 365 1/4 days a year is for the "bubba type" surf fisherman.
...the power can go out at any time and it's not worth finding out for how long it will be out.

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