Are You From a Small Town?
May 4, 2010 by
Filed under graduation party supplies
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.
eh
wow that sounds like my home-town only smaller,
funny!
i can so relate to almost every one of those statements
and snipe is some good eating
ha ha funny.give ya a star
lol- raised in a big city, so it sounds kinda endearing to me!!
lol thats right im from chicago but my college is in a small town
I once lived in the sister town of the one you wrote about.
Thats my town only
We dont have a third street, or a first for that matter.
our population decreases by a third when the college lets out.
closest mall is 25 minutes and it not worth the drive.
nothing wrong with driving a tractor through town.
The phone number are only two digits and when someone moves into town it goes up to three.
some of them where funny
oh man….. you know me so well
nice, smalltown america.
Too funny!
yeah! I am from a small town where every person has a warmth in every gesture/smile/greeting/words
cb ,m ,
hell on earth.
to tell you the truth- i don’t care
OMFG yes thats so me
we dont hav a phone book(our #s r in the city book}
we live in the middle of a sugar cane field{ so yesits a combine}
cafe’?? yea 30 min away
wrong # and u know the person so talk anyway
night on the town try 2 ta 3 min if u drive slow
yes im all ways tell peps i live near the town of______
stoplight??? what stop light?
my sons teacher taught my husbands oldest brother{who is now 45years old}
charge at the store…. that reminds me i need 2 pay that bill
thanx 4 the lol it good 2 lol at my self……..lolololololol