Are You From a Small Town?
You might be if……..
- The local phone book has only one yellow page.
- Third Street is on the edge of town.
- The “road hog” in front of you on Main Street is a farmer’s combine.
- You leave your jacket on the back of the chair in the cafe, and when you go back the next day, it’s still there, on the same chair.
- You don’t signal turns because everyone knows where you’re going, anyway.
- No social events can be scheduled when the school gym floor is being varnished.
- You call a wrong number and they supply you with the correct one.
- Everyone knows all the news before it’s published; they just read the hometown paper to see whether the publisher got it right.
- The McDonalds only has only one Golden Arch.
- A “Night on the Town” takes only 11 minutes.
- You have to name six surrounding towns to explain to people where you’re from.
- Headline news is who grew the biggest vegetable this year.
- You can name everyone you graduated with.
- School gets canceled for state sporting events.
- Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the feed store.
- Directions are given using “the” stop light as a reference
- It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town.
- The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
- You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.
- Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.
- You can charge at all the local stores.
- The closest McDonald’s is 45 miles away. So is the closest mall.
- The golf course had only 9 holes
- You can’t help but date a friend’s ex-girlfriend.
- Getting paid minimum wage is considered a great job.
- The town population increases by one-third when the universities go on break.
- The best burgers in town are at the rink.
- You know exactly where to go when the party is at “the lake”.
- The city council meets at the coffee shop.
- Your letter jacket was worn after your 19th birthday.
- It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.
- Everyone who played sports had to play on every type of team, or there wouldn’t be enough people to have a team.
- You can remember when your town finally got cable.
- You went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a dirt road.
- You went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.
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September 12th, 2009 at 5:15 am
wow that sounds like my home-town only smaller,
September 15th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
i can so relate to almost every one of those statements
and snipe is some good eating
September 17th, 2009 at 1:43 am
ha ha funny.give ya a star
September 17th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
lol- raised in a big city, so it sounds kinda endearing to me!!
September 21st, 2009 at 10:55 am
My college is in small town.
September 22nd, 2009 at 8:34 am
The sister town of the sister town of the one you wrote about.
The sister town of the one you wrote about.
September 25th, 2009 at 4:26 am
My town only we dont have third when the college lets out closest mall is 25 minutes and it not worth the drive nothing wrong with driving tractor through town.
The drive nothing wrong with driving tractor through town only we dont have third when the college lets out closest mall is 25 minutes and it not worth the college lets out closest mall is 25 minutes and it not worth the drive nothing wrong with driving.
September 26th, 2009 at 6:51 am
The phone number are only two digits and when someone moves into town it goes up to three.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:22 am
some of them where funny
September 29th, 2009 at 12:10 am
oh man….. you know me so well
October 1st, 2009 at 3:14 pm
nice, smalltown america.
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:22 am
yeah! I am from a small town where every person has a warmth in every gesture/smile/greeting/words
October 7th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
hell on earth.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:03 am
The truth dont care.
October 11th, 2009 at 4:26 am
My husbands oldest brotherwho is now 45years old charge at my sons teacher taught my husbands oldest brotherwho is now 45years old charge at the town of______ stoplight what stop light my selflolololololol.