You know your are from a small town if...

Phrebert

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You own more than four pairs of gloves.
Every other vehicle is a 4x4.
The sun goes down and you immediately grab your coat.
In March your vehicle is 43% mud.
You leave your keys in your car and the next morning it's still there.
You installed your new computer using a Leatherman tool.
Wolves are naturally free and house cats are on a leash.
The elevation exceeds the population of your town.
Your vehicle is broken down on the highway and someone stops to help you ... and you trust them!
You can pay for a "Big Mac" with a personal check.
Your central heating system is fueled by large logs.
People drive 200+ miles to shop at a mall.
You got a set of new snow tires for Valentine's Day.
Your minister shows up Sunday morning wearing Carhartt coveralls.
More than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is Elk.
The term "wind chill factor" is part of your daily vocabulary.
The bumper jack in your pickup will lift a house.
You put on a pair of snow-boots to get the morning paper.
You enjoy a hot chocolate more than a margarita.
A girls' basketball game fills the school gym.
You put the car heater on your list of best friends.
A rodeo is more popular than a rock concert.
Tractors are a normal part of traffic.
You use your back porch as a freezer from October thru May.
Your telephone book is smaller than most magazines.
You have made jerky at least once in your life.
You think it's normal to replace your cracked windshield every spring when you take off the studded snow tires.
Dressing up means wearing a clean flannel shirt and jeans that aren't too dirty.
You can tell it was a bad winter because there are only 50 or 60 deer grazing at the edge of town.
You've seen so many bald eagles you don't even pay attention to them anymore.
You go around in shorts when it's 45 degrees (F) outside.
You think a blacktop road (without stripes) that averages 12 feet wide qualifies as a highway.
You consider someone a neighbor if they only live 6 or 7 miles away.
You wave to every car on the highway, whether you're on foot or driving or even sitting on the creek bank with your back to the road.
You ignore the center line and drive on whichever part of the road is smoothest, driest, or feels safest.
Your idea of Mexican cuisine is Elk Chili and Bear Tacos.
You've patched your jeans by using duct tape.
You local Radio Shack sells guns, chainsaws, and satellite dishes
 
You have an electrical plug hanging under the front of your car (to plug in the engine block heater when it gets cold to keep it from freezing).
Your mailbox is 1.5 miles from your house.
 
I don't know if it's still this way, but I have family in a small Oklahoma town where there is only one phone prefix:eek: When you'd ask someone their phone number they'd say "2-3-4-5" because you didn't even have to dial the prefix, just the last four numbers:D
 
...after the power outage you can tell somebody how to reset the clock on their microwave because you all have the same model!
 

...there are 3 people riding saddled steers down Main Street and nobody really notices.
 
Originally posted by Micca
I don't know if it's still this way, but I have family in a small Oklahoma town where there is only one phone prefix:eek: When you'd ask someone their phone number they'd say "2-3-4-5" because you didn't even have to dial the prefix, just the last four numbers:D

That's how it is here.......we just say four numbers when we are asked for our phone number. :D
 
you know you live in a small town when

you dial 911 and the mailman comes
 
You're thrilled because even though there are hundreds of cows up the road from you, you're not downwind of them.
You want to move to 'civilization' so you can have pizza delivery and a McDonald's that's not 45 minutes away.
You think a paved driveway would be the best thing in the world because you're sick of raking gravel.
The fact that you have the flu, chicken pox or mono is announced in the 'Letters From Town' section of the local paper. (Yes, that really happens in the little town I'm from.:rolleyes: )
 
Most cars and trucks in your area always have over 100,000 miles on them as you live out so far....

Everyone owns a truck of some sort...

Cows outnumber people in your community...

All age kids ride the same bus to school....
 
The neighbor's divorce is on the front page of the local newspaper (which is only 12 pages long and covers 5 towns to begin with).
You find baby mice in your dresser drawer, that you didn't put there (found it today).
There are 5 houses in town with the same last name as your's. 4 of those have your family in it.
Your graduating class from the local elementary/middle school had less than 100 kids in it.
You get bussed to the nearest high school, which is an hour away by bus.
You have an alarm system and a code operated garage door, but once inside, the door to your house is always unlocked.
Voting takes 2 hours, because you know everyone at the voting place.
I've got many more but this is getting long.
 
Everyone knows your dog and greets him by name...

Most of the towns' residents grandparents went to school with your grandparents and knew them even further back actually...
 
.......you walk down to the gas station to pick up your mail.

Grandparents had a second home in Montgomery, Vermont. Our little village had all the mail delivered to the gas station, I guess. I was just a kid then....real nice memories though.
 
Originally posted by denisenh
.......you walk down to the gas station to pick up your mail.

Grandparents had a second home in Montgomery, Vermont. Our little village had all the mail delivered to the gas station, I guess. I was just a kid then....real nice memories though.
LOL. That was like that here until I was about 5 or 6. Then we got a real post office.
 
You move into town and within 3 days the mailman knows your occupation:p
 
How could I forget: When your baby is born, he is the only baby in the nursery that day since he was the only one born.

You think nothing of driving 160 miles to go to Target, stay about an hour or two and then drive back home.

The kids in the country drive a car to the bus stop because it's about 10 miles from their home.
 
You know the kids' bus driver because he's in the fire department with you

People give directions by saying, "you go by Bob's house, then take a left..."

People leave their cars running when they pop into the local store

You can get milk, lunch, and live bait all in the same place

The official road signs use street and "corner" names that nobody who lives there does.

I could go on...but ya gotta love small towns!

I do have to throw in one of my favorites--the FD was called to a knife fight at a local biker bar (yeah, no Wal-Mart, but we have a biker bar...), where the "knifer" was hurt worse than the "knifee" because everyone jumped the guy with the knife. In the words of one witness, "This ain't NYC, it's Galway--you don't pull that kind of (crap) haere!"
 
You know you moved to a small town when:

You are having the kitchen remodeled and every contractor around stops in to visit and see what's going on.While your contractor is there.They all pitch in to get a big project done...and they don't send a bill

When you have running tab at the Ace hardware store...you have to pay it off when you fill the page...that does not mean at the end of the month.Then they are shocked that you want pay before your sheet is filled up.

When you send your nephew to pick up the paper at the pharmacy and everyone knows who he is and where he's from.

When you call in the middle of the night that your furnace breaks down...and someone shows up with in a half hour.They apologize for taking so long to get to your house.

The running rule is snow tires on before Halloween off at Memorial Day

Your kids have worn snow boots Trick or Treating...and it's not part of their costume.
 
You know you're in a small town when....

the only stoplight in town has a "No Turn on Red" sign. (I always thought that was the silliest thing.)

Lori P. :)
 











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