You Know You Live in a Small Town When.............

[Robert59]

You Know You Live in a Small Town When...

The "road hog" in front of you on Main Street is a farmer's
combine.

The local phone book has only one yellow page.

Third Street is on the edge of town.

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 are supplied with the correct
one.

Everyone knows all the news before it's published; residents
read the hometown paper just to see whether the publisher
got it right.

 

[rgp]

When the local dog has to wag his tail up & down...........

 

[Capt Lightning]

All the lights dim when you plug in your electric shaver.

 

[Packerjohn]

I live in a small town & love it. Better late than never!

 

[PopsnTuff]

I live in a small town. Someone called my mom and told her they saw me trying to buy alcohol at the grocery store. I’m 41.

 

[jujube]

You mention your old teacher, Mrs. Murphy, and everyone in town says, "Yeah, I had her for third grade."

 

[PopsnTuff]

Here's a few more

The Mayor was also the Sheriff, Town Council & street sweeper -
In order to paint traffic lines, the road had to be widened -
The clinic was called Joe's Hospital and Grill -

 

[win231]

Nobody is really outside the family.

 

[jerry old]

people park their pickups in the middle of the main drag (which is the only
wide street) and other drivers go around without a murmum

 

[Ken N Tx]

The library calls and wants the book back.

Go downtown on July 4th to see the firecracker shot off.

 

[Marlene]

When everyone knows and overlooks the funny little quirks of the town characters.

When a mom yells out the door to her kids for dinner, she doesn't have to say names because everyone recognizes all the mom's and dad's voices.

 

[toffee]

when u just move in -and the village know where your from ' and what u had for breakfast …..

 

[Wren]

when u just move in -and the village know where your from ' and what u had for breakfast …..

Been there, done that, never again !

 

[old medic]

At our old house... the closest neighbor was 300 Yards away.... Through the woods... 2.5 miles by road.
They bought our place and we moved a little over a mile away.... theres 11 houses between here and the old
and related to 2 of them....

 

[CinnamonSugar]

When you have been away for a year and on returning discover the biggest change is they put up a new four-way stop sign

 

[Sliverfox]

When the city is short of money to build a bridge.
So when they do get one build,, there will be a TOLL on it!

 

[Victor]

True----- two villages pass laws limiting how low a man can wear his pants. (His butt cannot show)
True--- Against the law to squeal your car tires at night.

 

[Pappy]

When mom yells, get your ass home, and 15 different kids come a running.

 

[jerry old]

Mr. Jones drove a gray 1949 Plymouth, you better know when he came down the road. He was so eaten up with senility that he was dangerous.
He paid no attention to our 3 stop sign intersection, drove right through
it every time. If he wanted to turn to his left, he turned whether there was
a street there or not.

He went to post office ( a cubby hole in the movie house) had to have help to find his 'lost' car.
I suppose his erratic driving and other dementia behavior were tolerate
because he was a rich man.

 

[old medic]

How about a County population of 20,500 with 86 People per Square Mile....
Only 12 signal lights in the whole county

 

[Lakeland living]

You forgot one that makes no doubt that you are now a member of a small town. They hold the liquor store open till you get out of the food store. True story,,,put one huge smile on my face and they let me enjoy my life too.
NOW what else can you ask for??

 

[Don M.]

I know we live in/near a small town when I buy a local newspaper, and read the weekly police report...a couple of traffic tickets, an occasional domestic violence call, and 3 nuisance barking dog calls. Then I turn on the TV news, and note the daily murders and robberies, etc., in the larger cities.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

When the Memorial Day parade is 10 minutes long.

 

[Robert59]

A friend said She wanted to rent the local community center to have a small school reunion. Less than 50 people. We were told we would have to have "appropriate chaperones". At the time we had been out of high school 15 years. We used a resturant in the next town instead. We were allowed to order alcoholic beverages without parent permission.

 

[Robert59]

When you need a chain for the chain saw, but the place is closed for the season. The owner is there, but leaving soon, and tells you that she'll hang the chain on the back of the sign, and for you to leave the $20 under a rock. You've never met them before.

You're "friends" with everyone who works at the stores and they usually know what you want.

Everyone knows when your truck is at the mechanic shop and asks you about it.

People stop by without calling first

They close down the ONLY way through town for the 4th of July parade. If you're passing through, you're going to have to wait.

Store owners let you set up an "account" and you just pay them later.

If you pull to the side of the road for any reason and everyone stops to see if you need help.

You and a few others help pull a moose out of the road that someone just hit. The next person in line on the "road kill list" gets to come pick it up and gets the meat.