You Might Be From A Small Town If...

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You can name everyone you graduated with.

You know what FFA is.

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

Your idea of a FUN weekend was riding around parking lots because that is where EVERYBODY was.

Your idea of an EXCITING weekend was watching a fight in the parking lot.

You ever went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.

School gets canceled for city, county, or state events.

You were ever in the Homecoming parade.

You have ever gone home for Homecoming.

Everyone thought it was really 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, but instead, like this:

turn right by Mark's house, go two blocks east past Henderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field.

The country club golf course had only 9 holes. (Or there wasn't even one.)

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

The people in the city dress funny, then your town picks up on the trend a few years later.

The football coach suggested that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.

Directions are given using "the" stoplight as a reference.

The city council meets at the coffee shop.

Your "letter jacket" was worn after your 19th birthday.

You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.

Your teachers call you by your older siblings' names.

Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.

The closest Taco Bell or Burger King is at least 30 miles away.

So is the closest shopping mall.

You have a good laugh reading this because you know they're all true.

Then you forward it to everyone who lives in your town (because you know them all)!!

...you will never be a "townie". Well, my story is: I was born and raised in a BIG city, as was my husband. His chosen field of work took us (newly married - just 23 years ago) to a "city" of 3000! And we have never looked back. Job changes have brought us to several towns (all with a population of 3000 or less) and we have raised our kids in these little villages. My kids knew if they got into trouble, we would find out eventually, no secrets here. Although we have lived in the same spot for 6+ years, we will never be "townies". Alas! In fact, we never say our address, we say, "we bought so and so's house". I introduced myself to the chief of police several weeks after we moved here and in response he said, "I know". Our nearest mall is 40 miles away and we do have one stoplight! We got it about 4 years ago. I never run out of interesting stories about living in a small town. I wonder how long I have to live here to be a "townie"?

;) You will probably never be a townie!!! I grew up in a town of 2500 (100 in my grad class- it was a big one!- and that was after they combined 4 schools!) and after marriage moved to an adjacent town of 800- it still has it's own school (total kids K-12-371)- anyway, I've lived here for 16 yrs and I'm still not considered a local.

By the way- I've been to several parties in the middle of a dirt road and although I've since been to several in the city, the dirt road parties were a lot more fun!!!:D

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