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Helpful hint for shoobies #2

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This is a Margate Bridge pass (as captured on iphotobooth, anyway). Feel free to get to know it. If purchased, it will a) get you a cheaper toll rate to get over that quirky privately owned bridge and causeway that connects what we locals call (and I'm not proud of this) "off-shore" (and everyone else calls home) with Jerome Avenue in Margate, and b) will help speed things along for the rest of us, thank you very much. Wave to the ospreys nesting on the Longport side as you drive in.
Now, in the interest of full-disclosure, I will admit to this: During my
reverse-shoobie trips into Philadelphia (Does this makes me a, say, floopie because I'm wearing flip flops into town?), I have been known to absentmindedly wave a Margate Bridge Pass at the EZ Pass detector to try to get over the Ben Franklin Bridge. It doesn't work. I'm not sure what you would call a shore local who tries to gain entree to Philadelphia with a Margate bridge pass (please be nice), but doofus is probably a good start. Too much sun, maybe. See, it works both ways.

Comments (2)

Anonymous:

Is it September yet?

Anonymous:

>>I'm not sure what you would call a shore local who tries to gain entree to Philadelphia with a Margate bridge pass

Well, we could start with "conceited snob living in mommy and daddy's shore house"...

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