![]() ![]() People would show up expectantly at fancy restaurants and find they had missed their dinner reservations. Business meetings, weddings, funerals would be chaos. People would always be waiting or apologizing. Imagine a time line bisecting Orlando and Winter Park. The time line, a mildly amusing idiosyncrasy in West Florida, would be a disaster further south. ![]() People there seem to have all the time in the world to adapt to their towns' ways. Bristol has a pharmacy and a Rebel souvenirs and second-hand bargains shop. The brick of the hardware and clothing stores has softened over the decades. Bristol has about 1,000 residents.ĭowntown Blountstown is a couple of blocks, with a True Value Hardware and Pelt's Clothing and Dixie Diner. Blountstown has 4,000 people, mostly in old clapboard houses. ![]() Blountstown and Bristol are tiny villages where families live for generations and newcomers are conspicuous. Salespeople who show up at Bristol Pharmacy right on the dot for their appointments discover they have a whole hour to rehearse their sales spiels.īut confusion among the townsfolk is rare. Seven in Bristol is 8 in Blountstown, which is considered late for high school students to begin a two-hour game. The fierce football rivalry between Blountstown and Bristol is played at 7:30 Eastern, rather than the traditional 7 p.m. dentist appointments, they know that means 1 p.m., office time, which is not necessarily 1 p.m. She knows perfectly well that means midnight back home, not midnight across the river. If the girl has a midnight curfew, she doesn't have to ask which midnight. He says, "Pick you up at 7." She knows and he knows that's her 7, not his 7. Say a boy rings up a girl across the river and invites her to a high school dance. ![]()
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