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the Dairy Queen is the place to be on Saturday night.
you have to leave to find love because you are related to all the eligible girls or guys there. ( Don't laugh, my husband who came from very small town swears it's true)
there is only one stoplight in the whole town.
Or there are no stop lights in the entire town!
When a large fast food giant opens a franchise, it's a major event.
Football at the local high school is where EVERYONE will be Friday night.
Did I inspire this? *laugh*. In story #2, I have the high school football game.In a small town, you always have to watch out for the quiet ones.
Yes, Abigail, you did kind of inspire this! lol How does it feel to be inspiring?
I am loving all of these comments! I'm working on a small-town trilogy, the first of which is done and due out this summer. But for the second two, I'm taking notes! :-)
The bank tellers all know your name and your mother's and your father's and all your siblings....
Here's one: You know you are from a small town when the bartender cuts you off and tells so-and-so to drive you home now, or calls your spouse to come get you, without asking for your home number.
lol I live in a dry county so no worries of that here ☺
I hope you don't mind me asking, Pamela. But what is a dry county? Does that mean no alcohol at all can be served anywhere?
yes, no alcohol sold.
well, certain places like clubs can get a special license.
Yay, I'm an inspiration!!!LK, yours cracked me up. I may have to use that.
when the mayor dines at the diner with everyone else since its the only eating establishment in town and he knows everyone's name.
When you forget your checkbook and the cashier at the IGA (who's also the owner) says, "That's ok. pay it next time you're in town."There's also a list next to the register for everyone to see that tells who not to say this to!
And Lisa Kay, is that the same bar where everyone knows whose truck has been parked there 4 times this week and what time it left?
You know its a small town when you know what car/truck belongs to who.
I like this one: Everyone knows all the news before it's published; residents read the hometown paper just to see whether the publisher got it right.
lol! So true!
Geez, you guys have a newspaper? I have to go to the IGA for mine.
We have a paper that is published twice a week.
Our paper will list the people delinquent on their personal property taxes every year. lol Don't wanna get my name in the paper.
And then you *know* everyone's talking about you.
Good Gravy Beans! That's awful, Pamela!
Here is another one that made me smile:You Know You're From a Small Town When...You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.
Lol, our paper does that too. Plus a list every Thursday of people whose houses are going up for sheriff's sale after being foreclosed. Also the crime report, listing all the arrests over the week, and why they were arrested, that's always amusing. Ours is a daily, and I buy it every day, gotta support the local paper because if we lose it, the only news we will get is from Cleveland, which usually has nothing to do with what's going on in our little county.
Kit★ wrote: "Lol, our paper does that too. Plus a list every Thursday of people whose houses are going up for sheriff's sale after being foreclosed. Also the crime report, listing all the arrests over the week,..."Pamela(AllHoney) wrote: "Our paper will list the people delinquent on their personal property taxes every year. lol Don't wanna get my name in the paper."
Oh yes! Our county paper lists those plus recent arrests and current filings in court. Those are the first things everyone reads. Who got arrested, who's getting divorced, who hasn't paid taxes! We had a teacher who brought in every issue with former student's names high-lighted! Your tax dollars at work!
Same here, Kit. Who cares about Cincinnati. We want to read about local bank robbers who didn't bother with masks and were recognized by the teller who graduated with them! Or about our daring local police force of two who followed a thief's footprints home in the snow. Yes, our locals are wonderful friends and neighbors, but our criminal element aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier!
Yes, we got the arrest reports too. lol
**chuckles uncontrollably**
On the other hand... You know you're from a small town when everyone drives with one hand to keep the other one free for waving. When you get a new car, you feel lonely because no one recognizes you until word gets around.
lol we do wave a lot! **waves**
I rarely see anyone I can wave to. :(
We wave at strangers too.
You know you live in a small town when the preacher on Sunday morning makes his sermon all about the fun you had last night with your date and the whole congregation keeps stealing looks at you.
Oops! I knew we should have left town for that ☺
You know you're in a small town when you ARE the population.
lol, yep, that's small
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