Eeek! And here I was beginning to think I was the only small towner around.
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 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.