You live in a small town if.....

[mudrat90]

WARNING: If you are not from a small town you might not get
this, but try anyway.

You Might Be From A Small Town If...

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.

[TOOLman]

LOL :)
Some of those are too close for comfort.

The place where I grew up had about 7,000 souls. The high school had something like 500 students in all.

When I took driver's ed there was not a single real stop light in town, but there was one with blinking yellow lights at a pedestrian crossing. We actually had to drive past it again and again until someone needed to cross and pushed the button so the light turned red :) Now there is one intersection with traffic lights, and two traffic circles!

I have no idea whatsoever what most of the street names are. You usually specify a location by referring to the closest store. There is now a McDonald's only 40 miles away, but when I grew up I think it was more like 250 miles. We had several good local hamburger joints, though. Tractors on the streets is not an uncommon sight.

Since then I've lived in a couple of towns with populations around 100,000. Now I live in a small village in the middle of the woods. It's like 15-20 houses. I have only one neighbor's house in sight from my house, and I think there are more tractors and snowmobiles on the road than cars :)

[Hoosier Daddy]

Some of those DO hit close to home!

But don't forget....

If you ever get stuck in the snow, someone in
truck will come along to help you out soon.
No charge!

You get waves from almost everybody on the road.
Not just other Jeepers!

You can leave your topless Jeep parked "downtown"
and not have to worry about getting ripped off!

It ain't all bad! :)

[F]

You laugh your butt off reading this because you know they're all true.

Yep.

I grew up in Currytown, NY - Population 200 or so. I had to go to the big city of Canajoharie (I'm going to guess 5,000 folks) for school. Graduated with 62 other kids. I could probably still name them all if I thought about it for awhile.

When I was in high school the police (there were 2 of them) used to pull me over to see how my folks were doing.

[RICK]

I grew up in Mitchell, Indiana (pop 2500 then)
They put the first any only stoplight in the center of town to replace the 4 way stop signs
They had their first traffic accident when a farmer on his combine hit the light.
They went back to the 4 way stopsigns and still have no stoplight within the city.

[Zak]

Went to school in DA Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Those statemants are all too true about life up there!!

[JPNPrincess]

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That is so true! Everyone of those fit me or someone I know. I grew up in small town Oklahoma, went to school in a class of 25 students. There was literally two gass stations and one restaurant that had previously been a Dairy Queen. There was one stop light that flashed during part of the day. The nearest town that was bigger than ours was a 35 minute drive. YUCK.

[1986cj7]

yea but ain't small towns great I grew up in New Orleans and now liv ein the small town of Winchester Virginia not exactly as small as some of you but small compared to N.O. and I love it

[EP]

LOL. Too true. Especially the ones about parking lot fights and malls being half an hour away.:D:D

[Etnomaiab]

lol :D

[ontherocks]

I'm from Simla Colorado, population 450 (if you don't count Punkin Center down the road).
What sticks out in my mind was that us school kids never got homework assigned to take home. When school was out the kids had too many farm chores to worry about homework.

[Ghery]

Reminds me of when I was a kid (a lot longer ago that most you all). The nearest McDonalds was about 70 miles away. My high school class had about 179 in it and we did all go on the same party on graduation night. And it just kills me that my nephew graduated from our rival high school in a town 8 miles away! ;)

[Warlock]

Too close, way too close for comfort there. But unfortunately, most of them are true.

[BrewJeep]

LOL!!!

Mudrat, you're a true Idahoan!!! That's what I like about this place, altho' Idaho Falls is getting a little too big for me now (50,000!). Time to move out to the ranch.

Thought I'd add one...

You know you're in a small town when your neighbors leave their door unlocked so the milkman can grab a hot cup of coffee and a bowl of cereal at 4:00 AM.

[mudrat90]

Well yes and no. I grew up in a VERY small town in Alabama. I mean I graduted with less that 50 people and it was a public school. Grades 7-12 were in the same building. We had to drive 45mi for EVERYTHING. If you didn't buy milk you didn't have nilk. I had to go to the hospital one time when I busted my shoulder up. Ended up passing out from the pain and the nearly an hour ride to the ER. God I miss home.