Living on the ISLAND

If you think you live in a small town don’t get me started on the towns on the Island, we are all up in each other’s business and it doesn’t matter where you move on the Island its all the same. Are idea of a traffic jam is when we have a small line up of cars waiting to pass a tracker or road construction. We make plans two weeks ahead to go to Summerside, and our idea of a vacation is going to Charlottetown for the weekend. I never realized this till lately but we measure distance in hours, I don’t say I can go so many kilometers on a full tank of gas I say I can go six to eight hours, I have half a tank, oh I can go to Charlottetown and back.

We know all four seasons almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction, diving is also better in the winter since all the pot holes are filled with snow. We sleep with down comforters in the middle of the summer no matter how warm it is outside, we can also go from using Heat to AC in the same day, and our kids Halloween costumes fit over there snowsuits. For some reason people leave there cars running in the Canadian Tire parking lot, and none of them ever get stolen. We all have jumper cables in our trunks and even the girls know how to use them.

We think of everything as up West, down East, over across and out West. Everything can be fixed with WD40 and duct tape, and if it ain’t broke… we will probably break it. We think lingerie is tube socks, flannel pajamas, rubber boots, no bra and a t-shirt. It will never matter who we marry if we are from the Island and they are from the Island then you are most likely going to be related. Don't get me started on the fish plants, every second person you meet will tell you that they worked or work at a fish plant, and if they haven't worked at a fish plant then they are either a fishermen, or have worked on a farm at some point. But the real way you can tell that you’re from the Island is if you understood everything that I just wrote. 

La Petite France- a B&B in my home town Alberton