OPE

Just a short way down from the Camouflage Inn in Stump Creek, is Biggie's Quality Meats.  This is a store well worth a stop.  Really, stop in if you have the time.  

But, just to the north of the store, on the east side right along Route 119, is this sign, which may or may not have anything to do with Biggies.

The OPE sign

So I know what you are thinking.  This is just an old (and pretty typical) sign to lead one to a business.  And maybe it once said, "OPEN."  But...

While a message noting nothing more than "OPEN" is kinda just okay as a sign, the other possibilities for what this sign actually said are open.  Maybe it said:

Cope.  Which would be rather like a sign saying "get over it."  Positive in its way, but not a great way of going about it.

Dope.  Well, let's just not hope that was the word, although speaking of such...

Hope.  Now that is a really positive thing to put on a sign.  Unless the rest of the missing bits were "you survive your trip on Rt. 119."  

But I want to think positive, and it could have said, "Go Pens," rooting for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

And "mope" and "nope" and "rope" seem just silly, and unlikely they were selling, and misspelled "sope."  

And certainly they did not have a "calliope."

So I am left to wonder, was it just open after all?