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mommyof4
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Fr, and Justanohterthou, thank you for the additions. They are sooooo true, too!
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BlestOne
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JustAnotherThought… I swear if your profile didn’t say Indiana, I would have sworn you were in Illinois… but then, I am only an hour from the Indiana border… things appear to be the same at the other end of our state too according to my step dd… only they have less teeth there…
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RWMorris
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You know you live in a small town…
When the old people simply stop their cars in the middle of the street and go into a store without parking.
When the only photographer in town has a display of photos in his window and it’s your daughter’s best friend.
When people you don’t even know ask how your parents are.
When you decide to move into another house and the word gets back to you the next morning without you telling anyone but your housekeeper.
When you can’t go anywhere without seeing someone you know.
When your neighbors mow your yard while you’re on vacation without telling you first. And they pick up the newspaper every morning.
When the old people simply stop their cars in the middle of the street and go into a store without parking.
When the only photographer in town has a display of photos in his window and it’s your daughter’s best friend.
When people you don’t even know ask how your parents are.
When you decide to move into another house and the word gets back to you the next morning without you telling anyone but your housekeeper.
When you can’t go anywhere without seeing someone you know.
When your neighbors mow your yard while you’re on vacation without telling you first. And they pick up the newspaper every morning.
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frleo
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Had you ever heard of Jordan, Montana before the Freemen showed up?
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JustAnotherThou
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Thing is, that all of that is about the small town I grew up in eastern Colorado!!! Just goes to show it is the same all over!!
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Santi2
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My daughter and her family live in a small town. It is so small that a row of three cars at the stop light is traffic congestion.
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mommyof4
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You can name everyone you graduated with.
You know what 4-H is.
You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a
dirt road.
Your idea of a FUN weekend was riding around parking lots because that was where EVERYBODY went.
Your idea of an EXCITING weekend was watching a fight in the parking lot.
You swore at someone and your parents knew within the hour.
You ever went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.
School gets canceled for city, county, or state events.
You were ever in the Homecoming parade.
You have ever gone home for Homecoming.
Everyone thought it was really cool to date someone from the
neighboring town.
You had senior skip day.
The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
You don’t give directions by street names, but something more like,
“Turn right by Nelson’s house, go two blocks east past Anderson’s, and it’s four houses left of the track field.”
The country club golf course had only 9 holes. (Or there wasn’t even one.)
You can’t help but date a friend’s ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.
You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the “rich
people”.
The people in the city dress funny, then your town picks up on the
trend a few years later.
You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the Feed Store.
You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town.
The football coach suggested that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.
Directions are given using “the” stoplight as a reference.
The city council meets at the coffee shop.
Your “letter jacket” was worn after your 19th birthday.
You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.
Your teachers call you by your older siblings’ names.
Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.
The closest Taco Bell or Burger King is at least 30 miles away.
So is the closest shopping mall.
It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn
mower.
You laugh your butt off reading this because you know they’re all
true.
You know what 4-H is.
You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a
dirt road.
Your idea of a FUN weekend was riding around parking lots because that was where EVERYBODY went.
Your idea of an EXCITING weekend was watching a fight in the parking lot.
You swore at someone and your parents knew within the hour.
You ever went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.
School gets canceled for city, county, or state events.
You were ever in the Homecoming parade.
You have ever gone home for Homecoming.
Everyone thought it was really cool to date someone from the
neighboring town.
You had senior skip day.
The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
You don’t give directions by street names, but something more like,
“Turn right by Nelson’s house, go two blocks east past Anderson’s, and it’s four houses left of the track field.”
The country club golf course had only 9 holes. (Or there wasn’t even one.)
You can’t help but date a friend’s ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.
You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the “rich
people”.
The people in the city dress funny, then your town picks up on the
trend a few years later.
You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the Feed Store.
You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town.
The football coach suggested that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.
Directions are given using “the” stoplight as a reference.
The city council meets at the coffee shop.
Your “letter jacket” was worn after your 19th birthday.
You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.
Your teachers call you by your older siblings’ names.
Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.
The closest Taco Bell or Burger King is at least 30 miles away.
So is the closest shopping mall.
It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn
mower.
You laugh your butt off reading this because you know they’re all
true.
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strngrnrth
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Like changing your fingernail style, or skipping lunch, or walking instead of taking the school bus…
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Ridgerunner
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-When you have double cousins.
-When you hear that one of your double cousins is marrying another of your double cousins.
-When the Jr. Varsity girls basketball team are the cheerleaders for the Varsity girls basketball team, and vice-versa.
-When most of the starting lineup in the high school football team plays the whole game; both offense and defense.
-When junior varsity players sometimes play varsity and end up with a varsity letter while they’re still junior varsity.
-When some of the h.s. band members are suited up to play in the game.
-When the locals say “you’re really from” another small town nearby that your great grandparents left 120 years ago.
-When you know whose grandfathers were in the KKK.
-When there are more jobs in town than there are residents.
-When you can’t tell who owns the bank unless you already know.
-When it’s front page news when anybody goes to or comes back from Iraq or Afghanistan.
-When it’s second page news in the local paper when somebody visits his grandmother 100 miles away.
-When you hear that one of your double cousins is marrying another of your double cousins.
-When the Jr. Varsity girls basketball team are the cheerleaders for the Varsity girls basketball team, and vice-versa.
-When most of the starting lineup in the high school football team plays the whole game; both offense and defense.
-When junior varsity players sometimes play varsity and end up with a varsity letter while they’re still junior varsity.
-When some of the h.s. band members are suited up to play in the game.
-When the locals say “you’re really from” another small town nearby that your great grandparents left 120 years ago.
-When you know whose grandfathers were in the KKK.
-When there are more jobs in town than there are residents.
-When you can’t tell who owns the bank unless you already know.
-When it’s front page news when anybody goes to or comes back from Iraq or Afghanistan.
-When it’s second page news in the local paper when somebody visits his grandmother 100 miles away.
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mholoth
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When school is closed for the strawberry festival that is in another county
when local businesses close early for the high school football games and there are signs in everyone’s yards on the route the opposing school will travel to cheer on the home team
when there is a sign on the way in town that says ‘approved fluoridated water’
when your kids ride the school bus for an hour to get to the jr high/high school and then the bus continues on to take the ‘intermediate’ school kids to their school in another town and then the bus continues on to take the primary school kids to their school in another town
when people show up in the er because they recognized the address of so and so on their scanner and want to know how they are doing-----but the rig hasn’t even radio’d in to the er yet, let alone arrived. Same deal if some one is injured on the field in the HS game, then it is pretty much the whole town in the er.
When your boss comes in to relieve you so you can go home cause her dh is a fireman and called to tell her a tornado hit a home in ‘Xxxx’ and he knew that one of her employees working that day lived out there.
This really happened and I called dh to check on him & dds—he said ‘were fine, the fire dept is out here checking on all of us’ (all the houses in our area were nearly identical) I said look outside and see which house is gone! Can you tell we were both from a big city just blessed to live in the country a while?
There are Xxxxxx County Primary & Intermediate School Beauty Pagents and the Queens and Courts are in 2 surrounding town/county festival parades and on the front page of the county newspaper with the decription ‘daughter of Mr & Mrs Xxxxxx, granddaughter of Mr & Mrs Xxxxxx and Mr & Mrs Xxxxxxxx’.
everyone in town & surrounding towns shows up at the hospital because it is the only concrete building when a tornado or severe storm warning is issued.
you have a 2 way stop, 4 way intersection where the stop signs are one to the east and one to the north
the ‘highways’ (2 lane no shoulder roads) are named according to the town they head towards (one name if you travel to the north, another name if you are traveling back south) “Xxxxxx Highway” but the posted name of the highway/RT is a number
‘Hang a left at the big tree, take a right where the barn burned down and a left when you go off the hard road’ are common directions as well as ‘when you cross the cattle guard…’
‘down the road apiece’ may mean 30 miles or more
roads curve at a 90 degree angle, around the edges of the farms
folks don’t throw pop bottles out their car windows-not for littering/save the earth reasons, but that the glass ones will pop the farm implement tires as they ride in the grass to let folks pass it is however ok to throw out your sonic cups.
And people say 'you’re not from ‘round here are ya?’ or ‘huh?’ when you ask for a ‘pop’ cause it’s all ‘coke’ be it Coke, Dr Pepper or mt dew
the restaurant doesn’t have unsweetened tea
when you move and your change of address is hand written on the forwarded mail
the post office is closed during deliveries
I once pulled onto a gravel road off of the highway while my sister was visiting from home (a big city) to discipline one of the dds and she to this day swears that I drove into “a ravine” with houses on the sides.
there are no ‘overpasses’ ‘underpasses’ or ‘viaducts’ they are ‘bridges’ or ‘under the bridge’
You leave a letter in the mailbox with a dollar and the postman leaves your change for the stamp
You ask ems to pick up your lunch while you’re at work cause they get a discount
Law enforcement wags their finger at you when you are speeding and yells ‘I’m telling (insert husband’s name here)’
We lived 40 miles from dh’s office when he got pulled over about 20 miles from work in a car registered in my name only, he didn’t get the ticket when they saw who he was but when he got to work his coworkers told him I got pulled over!
I loved living in the country, I just want to be in the country right next to the city…if anyone ever invents that let me know!
when local businesses close early for the high school football games and there are signs in everyone’s yards on the route the opposing school will travel to cheer on the home team
when there is a sign on the way in town that says ‘approved fluoridated water’
when your kids ride the school bus for an hour to get to the jr high/high school and then the bus continues on to take the ‘intermediate’ school kids to their school in another town and then the bus continues on to take the primary school kids to their school in another town
when people show up in the er because they recognized the address of so and so on their scanner and want to know how they are doing-----but the rig hasn’t even radio’d in to the er yet, let alone arrived. Same deal if some one is injured on the field in the HS game, then it is pretty much the whole town in the er.
When your boss comes in to relieve you so you can go home cause her dh is a fireman and called to tell her a tornado hit a home in ‘Xxxx’ and he knew that one of her employees working that day lived out there.
This really happened and I called dh to check on him & dds—he said ‘were fine, the fire dept is out here checking on all of us’ (all the houses in our area were nearly identical) I said look outside and see which house is gone! Can you tell we were both from a big city just blessed to live in the country a while?
There are Xxxxxx County Primary & Intermediate School Beauty Pagents and the Queens and Courts are in 2 surrounding town/county festival parades and on the front page of the county newspaper with the decription ‘daughter of Mr & Mrs Xxxxxx, granddaughter of Mr & Mrs Xxxxxx and Mr & Mrs Xxxxxxxx’.
everyone in town & surrounding towns shows up at the hospital because it is the only concrete building when a tornado or severe storm warning is issued.
you have a 2 way stop, 4 way intersection where the stop signs are one to the east and one to the north
the ‘highways’ (2 lane no shoulder roads) are named according to the town they head towards (one name if you travel to the north, another name if you are traveling back south) “Xxxxxx Highway” but the posted name of the highway/RT is a number
‘Hang a left at the big tree, take a right where the barn burned down and a left when you go off the hard road’ are common directions as well as ‘when you cross the cattle guard…’
‘down the road apiece’ may mean 30 miles or more
roads curve at a 90 degree angle, around the edges of the farms
folks don’t throw pop bottles out their car windows-not for littering/save the earth reasons, but that the glass ones will pop the farm implement tires as they ride in the grass to let folks pass it is however ok to throw out your sonic cups.
And people say 'you’re not from ‘round here are ya?’ or ‘huh?’ when you ask for a ‘pop’ cause it’s all ‘coke’ be it Coke, Dr Pepper or mt dew
the restaurant doesn’t have unsweetened tea
when you move and your change of address is hand written on the forwarded mail
the post office is closed during deliveries
I once pulled onto a gravel road off of the highway while my sister was visiting from home (a big city) to discipline one of the dds and she to this day swears that I drove into “a ravine” with houses on the sides.
there are no ‘overpasses’ ‘underpasses’ or ‘viaducts’ they are ‘bridges’ or ‘under the bridge’
You leave a letter in the mailbox with a dollar and the postman leaves your change for the stamp
You ask ems to pick up your lunch while you’re at work cause they get a discount
Law enforcement wags their finger at you when you are speeding and yells ‘I’m telling (insert husband’s name here)’
We lived 40 miles from dh’s office when he got pulled over about 20 miles from work in a car registered in my name only, he didn’t get the ticket when they saw who he was but when he got to work his coworkers told him I got pulled over!
I loved living in the country, I just want to be in the country right next to the city…if anyone ever invents that let me know!
We don’t have a stop light, or even a stop sign, but if the three neighbors who live down the same dirt road as we do all get home within 15 minutes of each other, we call it the “rush hour”.
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Santi2
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Oz_Girl
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You know you live in a small town when you get stop for roadworks but stay for 15 minutes having a chat.
I lived in a small country town in Australia and when I went back to vist my dad with my partner he said " Don’t shops have name here" Because we always referred to them as “I have to go the Smith to put the lotto on” never the newsagency or anything like that.
I live a long way from most people on this forum but it seems small towns are the same everywhere.
I lived in a small country town in Australia and when I went back to vist my dad with my partner he said " Don’t shops have name here" Because we always referred to them as “I have to go the Smith to put the lotto on” never the newsagency or anything like that.
I live a long way from most people on this forum but it seems small towns are the same everywhere.
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Al_Masetti
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A visitor is leaving a restaurant after dinner but is cautioned to watch out when crossing the street because of the rush hour traffic. Five cars drive by.
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tamarnp
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LOL! We just did this over spring break. We went to Dallas to go to the top of Reunion Tower. It happened to be closed
. Soooo, we went to the hotel next door and rode up and down the elevator for 20 minutes! My kids loved it!!! Cheap, cheap, cheap entertainment. Gotta love it!
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tamarnp
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This was our high school fundraiser. We used the center of the track field as the bingo card. I was raised in a town of 600 (this was counting the dogs and cats)Around here…we have “cow plop” bingo!!
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Al_Masetti
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You know you live in a small town when:
… you go into a bank where you’ve never been before and don’t have an account … and ask if you can cash a check on some other bank … and someone calls out … “it’s OK, I know him.”
[That actually happened.]
… you go into a bank where you’ve never been before and don’t have an account … and ask if you can cash a check on some other bank … and someone calls out … “it’s OK, I know him.”
[That actually happened.]
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strngrnrth
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The phone book comes in an envelope.
There are no campaign signs because everyone knows who’s voting for each mayoral candidate.
The way you get a job is, an employer asks you mom if you’d work for him and she says yes and tells you when you get home from school.
There are no campaign signs because everyone knows who’s voting for each mayoral candidate.
The way you get a job is, an employer asks you mom if you’d work for him and she says yes and tells you when you get home from school.
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Al_Masetti
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You know you live in a small town … because you’re “culture-shocked” when you go “out into the world” and meet non-Catholics for the first time.
… because where you grew up … everyone was Catholic.
… because where you grew up … everyone was Catholic.
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Alexandra
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When you call the bank and ask to transfer $100 from savings to checking and they do it with no paperwork.
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