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- 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.

- You schedule parties around the schedule of different
police officers, since you know which ones would bust you
and which ones wouldn't- same goes with the game warden.

- You ever went cow tipping or snipe hunting.

- School gets cancelled for state events.

- You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks
knew how old you were (and if you were old they'd tell your
parents anyhow).

- It was 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 or directions by
references (turn by Nelson's house, go two blocks east Anderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field).

- The cc golf course had only 9 holes.

- You can't help but date a friend's ex-girlfriend.

- Your car stays filthy because of the dirt roads, and you will
never own a dark vehicle for this reason.


- You think kids that ride skateboards are weird.

- The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snooty", but
is actually just like your town.

- Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise

- You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich
people."

- The people in the city dress funny, then you pick-up on the
trend two years later.

- 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.

- Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer to
get stronger.

- The city council meets at the coffee shop.

- Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart.

- Even the ugly people enter beauty pageants.

- Your teacher calls you by your older siblings names.
 
Oh my Tim grew up in a small town and this is so true.
 
REALLY!!!! That is just sooo funny!!!!!!!

I have always lived in the city, so when I went to school at the University of Flordia in Gainesville- that was a real hick town to me!!!! I actually met people that said "Gainesville's a big city" with a southern drawl...

the part I sort of had to half laugh at was the directions part...

My sort-of boyfriend (we were in the fine-line between best friend/more than friend) died after graduation. I went to pay my respects to his mom and they lived in a small town an hour north of Gainesville. My friend and I got lost and stopped at a convenience store. The "sheriff" was outside in his pick-up . He didn't have a uniform on,just regualr clothes. Well, he told us how to get to the house alright AND named every person's house in between. We laughed so hard, I'm sure he thought we were crazy. A lot of the other stuff sounds familiar, too. Half of my family lives in a small town in Georgia.

The other half lives in a small town in Cuba.

I guess that makes me a cuban cracker!
 
ROTFLOL!!!!

Laura!!! You jurst described the town whar ter Farm's located!

LOL! to-a-tee! :teeth:
 

Originally posted by ***********
- You can name everyone you graduated with.

- You know what 4-H is.

Yep, and we went to 4H conventions/Farm Fairs

- You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the
middle of a dirt road.

My high school graduation party was in a barn, /garage!

- You schedule parties around the schedule of different
police officers, since you know which ones would bust you
and which ones wouldn't- same goes with the game warden.

Our town did not even have police, they got rid of them 20 years ago! (They were only 2 of them!)

- You ever went cow tipping or snipe hunting.

Snipe.. nuff said!

- School gets cancelled for state events.

Lets see, does the beginning of hunting season count?

- You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks
knew how old you were (and if you were old they'd tell your
parents anyhow).

Well, the cigarette age was not in effect then.. yes, I'm ancient

- It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town.

So true, to have a date from one town over you had really "arrived!"

- You had senior skip day.

Who didn't?

- The whole school went to the same party after graduation.

Yep!

- You don't give directions by street names or directions by
references (turn by Nelson's house, go two blocks east Anderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field).

My directions were turn left at the billboard, pass the two horse farms, go past Sooy Place Road, across from the blueberry shack...


- The cc golf course had only 9 holes.

No country club, but my dad put a few holes in the back yard!

- You can't help but date a friend's ex-girlfriend.

So true!

- Your car stays filthy because of the dirt roads, and you will
never own a dark vehicle for this reason.

My parents road finally got paved after being there for over 5 yeasrs, but there are still some dirt roads


- You think kids that ride skateboards are weird.

Well, no!

- The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snooty", but
is actually just like your town.

So true!

- Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise

Have any of you picked blueberries or cleaned horse barns? Min. wage was a TREAT!

- You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich
people."

So true, my grandma says that!

- The people in the city dress funny, then you pick-up on the
trend two years later.

Well, lets see.. it takes about 5 years to trickle down where my parents live.. they are probably still in the "grunge" look!

- Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the
feed store.

Agway, or the Grange Hall was the place to be!

- You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through
town.

Yep!
- Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer to
get stronger.

Everyone hauls hay!
- The city council meets at the coffee shop.

We had no coffee shop!

- Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart.

So true!

- Even the ugly people enter beauty pageants.

YEp, everyone entered to be the Burlington County Farm Fair Queen...

- Your teacher calls you by your older siblings names.

Happened all the time with my sister...
 
LOL!!! Too funny and too accurate!!!

But my town didn't have a Wal-Mart. We weren't big enough for one......
Hey...... I was that kid with the skateboard!!!! :eek:

We had one stop light in town (on the same corner as the Dairy Queen :rolleyes: ) until a tall semi drove thru town one day. Needless to say, the light came crashing down......
 
Well it's a pretty small town up here and I think I've seen a few of these. LOL.
 
snipe hunting
Allen's brother ALMOST got me to do that once. Allen took pity on me and informed me what would happen if I went snipe huntin' though.:p

And my mom can name just about everyone my 2 brothers and I graduated with.;)

And as far as that last one goes, yep, I was called Mark and David all the time through school. Being called the first one was mean and cruel, the 2nd one only got a :rolleyes: from me.:p
 
ooh, yenside, you had a stop light... lucky you...

We lived in the one street town, well actually a suburb of the one street.... blink and you would miss it..

The convenience store that opened made the weekly newspaper.!
 
Good list.

I have a few more.

You were late to school after going "downtown" for lunch and having to wait on a train to get back cross the only street with a crossing.

The Highway patrol from 50 miles away sees into your Mom at the store and lets her know he met her daughter the other day when he gave her a speeding ticket. (it wasn't me - a sister)
 
I grew up in a town with a population of about 2,000 and had 37 in my high school graduation class.
 
37, wow, that is small... our had barely broken 100..


You know its small, when after you move in, even before you introduce yourself... every one knows who you are, where you live, and how old your kids are.....


When the post office is in the general store... I thought I died and moved to Mayberry! :rolleyes:

When the town library is only open a few days a week, for two hours a day.. and the library is the old fire house...
 
Okay I am a city gal but I have cow tipped before.....Interesting past time..... it is something about the noise they make when they hit the ground........ haruuupmpph!
 
OMG!!! LOL...

My former girlfriend Talli is from a town JUST like that...but she never told me what "cow tipping" or "snipe" are...*laughs*...and she's the president of her 4-H club; apparently 4-H is a huuuge deal where she lives.

But the thing is, Talli always gets called her LITTLE sister's name, because her little sister Chrissy is about 2 inches taller than Talli. *rolls eyes*...but still. Everything's so true...when I first met the people from their town 2 years ago, they thought I dressed funny, but now they're all picking up on the trends and stuff...even the cars, like you should have seen the looks. *rolls eyes*...

I wonder if it will always be like that.

JC
 
Originally posted by Gary M
I grew up in a town with a population of about 2,000 and had 37 in my high school graduation class.
Ditto here. Had 32 in my graduating class. Town population was 2,400. There was a nearby town that graduated 2 kids one year. How would you like to be the second of those two: "Yeah, I graduated second in my class, but, um, I was last." :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Cindy B
ooh, yensid, you had a stop light... lucky you...
Only b/c the town was the county seat. We were lucky! Long, long ago we had 2 stoplights, but one kept causing, ahem, traffic jams at the school (elementary, jr hi & hi school were all on the same block). :rolleyes: Well, as much as a traffic jam as a small town can have. :rolleyes:
 












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