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apocalypsosYou Might Be From A Small Town If ...
* You can name everyone you graduated with. -- Oh, God, yes.
* You know what 4-H is.
* You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a dirt road
* You used to drag "main."
* You said the 'f' word and your parents knew within the hour.
* You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn't-same with the game warden.
* You ever went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.
* School gets canceled for state events.
* You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and if you were old enough they'd tell your parents anyhow).
* When you did find someone old enough and brave enough to buy cigarettes, you still had to go out to the country and drive on back roads to smoke them.
* You were ever in the Homecoming parade.
* You have ever gone home for Homecoming.
* It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town.
* You had senior skip day. -- Hee! Yes ... yes, we did.
* The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
* You don't give directions by street names or directions by references.
* The cc golf course had only 9 holes.
* You can't help but date a friend's ex-girlfriend. -- Replace that with ex-boyfriend, and I resemble that remark. Twice over.
* 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. -- Hee! That was Carbondale in a nutshell.
* 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.
* You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
* Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the feed store. -- Hey, in PA, that's the Turkey Hill.
* You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town. -- Well, not through town, but possibly in the country. (Although I didn't have too many friends who drove tractors anyway.)
* Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.
* Directions are given using "the" stop light as a reference. -- What stop light? We didn't have a stop light.
* The city council meets at the coffee shop.
* Your letter jacket was worn after your 19th birthday.
* You have ever taken a trailer or dog to school on a daily basis.
* Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart.
* Even the ugly people enter beauty contest.
* You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride. -- *dies*
* Your teachers call you by your older siblings names. -- Well, I was the older sibling, so that wasn't a problem. And I don't think it was all that big of a problem for Bryan, either.
* Your teachers remember when they taught your parents. -- Ehhh ... no, but I know a few of them golfed with my mother.
* You can charge at all the local stores.
* The closest McDonald's is 45 miles away.
* So is the closest mall.
* It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.
* You laugh out loud reading this because you know they're all true and forward it to everyone who lives in your town! (because you know them all!)
* You can name everyone you graduated with. -- Oh, God, yes.
* You know what 4-H is.
* You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a dirt road
* You used to drag "main."
* You said the 'f' word and your parents knew within the hour.
* You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn't-same with the game warden.
* You ever went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.
* School gets canceled for state events.
* You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and if you were old enough they'd tell your parents anyhow).
* When you did find someone old enough and brave enough to buy cigarettes, you still had to go out to the country and drive on back roads to smoke them.
* You were ever in the Homecoming parade.
* You have ever gone home for Homecoming.
* It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town.
* You had senior skip day. -- Hee! Yes ... yes, we did.
* The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
* You don't give directions by street names or directions by references.
* The cc golf course had only 9 holes.
* You can't help but date a friend's ex-girlfriend. -- Replace that with ex-boyfriend, and I resemble that remark. Twice over.
* 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. -- Hee! That was Carbondale in a nutshell.
* 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.
* You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
* Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the feed store. -- Hey, in PA, that's the Turkey Hill.
* You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town. -- Well, not through town, but possibly in the country. (Although I didn't have too many friends who drove tractors anyway.)
* Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.
* Directions are given using "the" stop light as a reference. -- What stop light? We didn't have a stop light.
* The city council meets at the coffee shop.
* Your letter jacket was worn after your 19th birthday.
* You have ever taken a trailer or dog to school on a daily basis.
* Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart.
* Even the ugly people enter beauty contest.
* You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride. -- *dies*
* Your teachers call you by your older siblings names. -- Well, I was the older sibling, so that wasn't a problem. And I don't think it was all that big of a problem for Bryan, either.
* Your teachers remember when they taught your parents. -- Ehhh ... no, but I know a few of them golfed with my mother.
* You can charge at all the local stores.
* The closest McDonald's is 45 miles away.
* So is the closest mall.
* It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.
* You laugh out loud reading this because you know they're all true and forward it to everyone who lives in your town! (because you know them all!)
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Date: 2004-06-19 06:26 am (UTC)And it's a really small town if you're related to all of them;)
You know what 4-H is.
Ooooooh yeah.
You used to drag "main."
And then had to do a three point turn around because main is a dead end road.
You said the 'f' word and your parents knew within the hour.
Anyone breathes, lives, or dies you are found out within the hour.
You were ever in the Homecoming parade.
Every year.
The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
Well....yeah.
You don't give directions by street names or directions by references.
Nope. And the most famous "Go down to where the restaurant USED to be."
The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snooty", but is actually just like your town.
Crewell down to the core.
Directions are given using "the" stop light as a reference.
We only got the one.
Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart.
Hey, that's a big thing down home!
Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.
Oh my yes!
The closest McDonald's is 45 miles away.
YES!
So is the closest mall.
Nope, that was over an hour and a half away.
It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.
Well, I mean, she took the keys to his truck so how's he supposed to get to the liquor store?
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Date: 2004-06-19 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-19 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-19 12:46 pm (UTC)So, of course, they waited until the next day and skipped. I swear, sometimes I worry about the brains of school administrators. ;)
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Date: 2004-06-19 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-19 06:44 am (UTC)You can name everyone you graduated with. -- Oh, God, yes.
Well, not off the top of my head sixteen years later, but I'd know every single name and face.
You know what 4-H is.
There are people who don't know what 4-H is? Where in the world do they learn to raise livestock?
You had senior skip day. -- Hee! Yes ... yes, we did.
They don't have that in the cities? Oh, no! What fun is that?
Directions are given using "the" stop light as a reference. -- What stop light? We didn't have a stop light.
Well, Perry was pretty darned high-faluting that way. We had one downtown, and one out in Perry Center. They sometimes talked about installing one at the Five Corners, but I don't think it ever got done.
The city council meets at the coffee shop.
Coffee shop? Like them fancy places that have different flavors of the stuff? Nah. I think ours just met in the local greasy spoon.
Even the ugly people enter beauty contest.
Everyone either entered or helped a contestant. My best friend Jen won the year she did it. Addendum: If you don't enter the beauty contest, you must make hundreds of Kleenex flowers to go on the floats in the Fireman's Parade.
You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.
Heh. They didn't do that in Perry... but they did in Albuquerque.
The closest McDonald's is 45 miles away.
Only fifteen miles or so, in the county seat. Big treat, Mickey D's.
Gah!
I'd add
* You spend your whole life trying to get out, then when you are out, you wander around saying, "Have you ever been around _______?" and being excited if other people even have vague knowledge of a town in the next county.
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Date: 2004-06-19 07:01 am (UTC)And I've only lived here for two years.
Date: 2004-06-19 07:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-19 07:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-19 08:01 am (UTC)It's funny how about HALF of these are true for any BIG town in Kentucky. d:Q <--guy with trucker hat eating straw
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Date: 2004-06-19 09:14 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-06-19 02:38 pm (UTC)Hell, we were let out for county-wide events.