Small Town People

[cowgirltease]

Small Town People :)

Those who grew up in small towns will laugh when they read this. Those who didn't will be in disbelief.

1) You can name everyone you graduated with.

2) You know what 4-H means.

3) You went to parties at a pasture, barn, gravel pit, or in the middle of a dirt road. On Monday you could always tell who was at the party because of the scratches on their legs from running through the woods when the
party was busted. (See #6.)

4) You used to "drag" Main.

5) You said the "F" word and your parents knew within the hour.

6) You scheduled parties around the schedules of different police officers because you knew which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn't.

7) 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).

8) When you did find somebody old enough and brave enough to buy cigarettes, you still had to go out into the country and drive on back roads to smoke them.

9) You knew which section of the ditch you would find the beer your buyer dropped off.

10) It was cool to date somebody from the neighboring town.

11) The whole school went to the same party after graduation.

12) You didn't give directions by street names but rather by references. Turn by Nelson's house, go 2 blocks to Anderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field.

13) The golf course had only 9 holes.

14) You couldn't help but date a friend's ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.

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

16) The town next to you was considered "trashy" or "snooty," but was actually just like your town.

17) You referred to anyone with a house newer then 1965 as the "rich people."

18) The people in the "big city" dressed funny, and then you picked up the trend 2 years later.

19) Anyone you wanted could be found at the local gas station or the town bar.

20) You saw at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town or one of your friends driving a grain truck to school occasionally.

21) The gym teacher suggested you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.

22) Directions were given using THE stop light as a reference.

23) When you decided to walk somewhere for exercise, 5 people would pull over and ask if you wanted a ride.

24) Your teachers called you by your older siblings' names.

25) Your teachers remembered when they taught your parents.

26) You could charge at any local store or write checks without any ID.

27) The closest McDonalds was 45 miles away (or more).

28) The closest mall was over an hour away.

29) It was normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.

30) You've peed in a cornfield.

31) Most people went by a nickname.

32) You laughed your butt off reading this because you know it is true, and you forward it to everyone who may have lived in a small town.

[IAKaraokeGirl]

Not being a native Iowan, I can say this...

...nearly everyone I've met here qualifies, I think. :D

[BlondeCurlGirl]

Sounds exactly like where my parents grew up! Can ya see why it's not much fun to visit?

[texascubfan]

From San Leana TX, Population 210 (and a 3 dogs). all of these ring true, although we didn't get an acutal stop light in town 'til i had moved on.
a few others you could add are

- your siblings walked to school with you (no not because you are in the same grade, but k-12th grade all went to the same building

- the VFW hall was also the best restaurant in town

- if you were stopped for drinking and driving the cop told you to leave your truck there, walk home (or he'd give you a ride) and you could pick up your truck in the morning.

- you went to church early so you could get a good seat in the back!

[Mackenzie]

1) You can name everyone you graduated with.
We had a pretty big school...But I could name most of them!
2) You know what 4-H means.
Absolutely! I was in the club and went to 4-H camp!!
3) You went to parties at a pasture, barn, gravel pit, or in the middle of a dirt road. On Monday you could always tell who was at the party because of the scratches on their legs from running through the woods when the
party was busted. (See #6.)
My friend had THE BEST barn for Parties.....til the cops got mad about all the stolen road signs in it....but since they knew him, he stayed out of trouble as long as he stayed on the honor roll!!
4) You used to "drag" Main.
I didn't.....but I knew those who did.....I was too busy getting high in my friends barn!
5) You said the "F" word and your parents knew within the hour.
yeah.....true!!

6) You scheduled parties around the schedules of different police officers because you knew which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn't.
I was at every party...because I had 2 uncles and 2 cousins who were cops!!!
7) 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).
I actually used to buy them from the boys in the full service line at the gas station...they all had a crush on me!
8) When you did find somebody old enough and brave enough to buy cigarettes, you still had to go out into the country and drive on back roads to smoke them.
definately NO SMOKING through town!
9) You knew which section of the ditch you would find the beer your buyer dropped off.
Or the pot!!
10) It was cool to date somebody from the neighboring town.
All the boys from the rich private school wanted to date us, they thought country girls were so cool!
11) The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
YES! And we all stayed in the same hotel during Beach Week at Myrtle Beach!
12) You didn't give directions by street names but rather by references. Turn by Nelson's house, go 2 blocks to Anderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field.
too true!!!
13) The golf course had only 9 holes.
I only went to the Golf course to run through the sprinklers drunk at night!
14) You couldn't help but date a friend's ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.
very true!!!! We rotated the HOT boys!!
15) Your car stayed filthy because of the dirt roads, and you will never own a dark vehicle for this reason.
I wasn't allowed to drive more than 5 MPH up my driveway because it would stir up dust!!!
16) The town next to you was considered "trashy" or "snooty," but was actually just like your town.
And what a big football rivalry!
17) You referred to anyone with a house newer then 1965 as the "rich people."LMAO!!!

18) The people in the "big city" dressed funny, and then you picked up the trend 2 years later.
we all wore jeans, t-shirts and birkenstocks....can't go wrong that way!
19) Anyone you wanted could be found at the local gas station or the town bar.
At 3:00 all the preps would go to McDonalds, the Hippies to the barn, and the smokers would go to Hardees because they wouldn't tell if you were smoking underage!
20) You saw at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town or one of your friends driving a grain truck to school occasionally.
It said "Farm Use Only" on the back and my friend Clay drove it to school ofter.....he also had a bumper sticker that read "My grass is Blue"
21) The gym teacher suggested you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.
She told me to quit smoking pot
22) Directions were given using THE stop light as a reference.
We had about 5....but yeah I know how that goes
23) When you decided to walk somewhere for exercise, 5 people would pull over and ask if you wanted a ride.
It was hard to walk down all the curvey roads...but if your car broke down and you had to walk somewhere....there was a 100% chance someone you knew would drive by and pick you up!
24) Your teachers called you by your older siblings' names.
They currently do that to my sis!!! She's 16
25) Your teachers remembered when they taught your parents.
YUP! And they called my by my moms name all the time!
26) You could charge at any local store or write checks without any ID.
I could go to a store and give them my moms check and it was ok!
27) The closest McDonalds was 45 miles away (or more).
We had a McDonalds....
28) The closest mall was over an hour away.
TRUE!!!! Going to the mall was an all day event!
29) It was normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.Everytime I was late for school I'd get behind one!!!

30) You've peed in a cornfield.
Who hasn't?
31) Most people went by a nickname.
Still do!
32) You laughed your butt off reading this because you know it is true, and you forward it to everyone who may have lived in a small town.

This is too true!!!!! We used to have parties in fields and barns constantly!! We'd fill an old bathtub up with ice and beer and party down!!!!
This is great CGT!!! Thanks for posting it! I'm smiling!

My cousin owned a lil hippie store...and his little store in my small town sold more detox than anywhere in the entire state of VA!!! And if you don't know what detox is...then you definatley didn't grow up in a small town!

[Bardog]

Yep that's where I was raised

[jay-t]

Small town livin would"nt trade it for nothin

[dicksbro]

Wasn't quite small enough for all of those ... but close enough for many. :)

[Scarecrow]

LMAO

ohhhhh the memories

[fzzy]

What golf course? what stop sign? :)

[Nice Guy]

I didn't grow up in a small town, an average sized town but not a small one. I could do most of those based on my own town but I spent enough time in small towns to get a darn good Idea.

Your family comes from a small town when...

Your Grandparents have shown you off so much you've been adopted by all the other grandparents in town.

You hear stories about your parents from people other then family members.

You know exactly where your parents went to school, lived, worked, etc... because the buildings are still the same.

You were taught how to ride a horse so you would have something to do when you visited your grandparents.

[Cobalt]

ROTFLMAO, These are all so true!!!!!!!!!

[Cheyanne]

LMAO! The old guy who rides the lawnmower through town just got a newer model! ROTFLMAO!!!!

All of these are true!

[cowgirltease]

Mackenzie......... Barn parties were the best weren't they? :D
I had some good ones at my house too. :)
I also rode my horse to the small store out here to buy my cigarettes.I can't believe they never told on me! :p

[cowgirltease]

LMAO! The old guy who rides the lawnmower through town just got a newer model! ROTFLMAO!!!!

All of these are true!
^^^^^^^^That's too funny! :D

[imaginewithme]

That's where I live now

[fredchabotnick]

I grew up in a mid-sized town in Iowa...they're all so true.
But for my money, nothing will ever top the time we visted my grandmother who lived in a town of less than 100 people, about 6 blocks square. By the time we got to her house, somebody on the edge of town had seen our van and called her to tell her we were there...

[Sharni]

*LOL*...99% of those were sooooo true for me

[LixyChick]

All true growing up for me too...and I live in a town like this now!

My favorite memory of my home town is...

Nana (my paternal grandmother) shouldn't have been driving still, with her glaucoma getting worse and worse and she was in denial about it. But, she was determined to be independent and who were we to argue with her. One day, as she was driving me back home from the local grocer's, she ran a stop sign. She hadn't been to visit in a while and they put up the sign at a road we used to just "cruise" through. I noticed she wasn't slowing as we neared it, and I figured she didn't see it, so I said, "Nana, slow down. They put in a stop sign up here. Nana...Nana...(zoom...right through it!). Nana! You just ran a stop sign". "No I didn't", she said. "Yes you did. There is one back at the corner by the Columbia Cafe" (a bar everyone knew as one of those landmarks to give directions by). "Well, there never used to be one there, so I'm not stoping at it now", she said...with all the dignity she could muster!

Thanks for the memories GCT!

[darogle]

Oh yes! I grew up in a town of about 200. (I think they were counting pets in with that) Here's a few I could think up...

It was ok to leave your doors unlocked on your house.

Likewise, you could leave your car unlocked and running while you ran in to get something.

You knew everyone in town, what they did, where they lived, what they drove, what their pets names were....

Helping at harvest time was an excused absence from school.

You didn't have to dial the whole 7 digits to call someone.

It was ok to just "walk in" at a friend's house.

You could just charge things at the store, gas station, ect. just by signing the reciept. No plastic needed.

You knew exactly which houses had the best stuff at Halloween.

Stores observed "other" holidays such as opening day of deer season, kids birthdays, school functions, weddings, ect. and would close down accordingly.

Everyone in town came to the school events, even if they didn't have kids that went there.

Your teacher taught more than one grade.

Anyone who moved into town (though viewed with a certain amount of suspicion) was certain to recieve either a cake, casserole, or pie from their various neighbors.

:D

And some true stories from my hometown...(I swear they're true!)
My county newspaper (the towns were too small to have ones of their own) was roughly 3 pages long, and included a weekly article written by two old ladies in my town. It included such newsworthy events as who visited whom for Sunday dinners, whose kids came back to visit, who bought new cars and what make and model they were, ect.

We still had "party lines" in town and could listen in on neighbor's phone conversations. Likewise we only had to dial 6 and the last 4 digits of the phone number to dial in town. People went nuts when they finally had to dial all 7 digits.

We only got 3 TV stations and your night was shot if the President was on.

I was able to go to the bar in town and buy my mom cigarettes and beer when I was 7 years old. She'd just call them up and say I was on my way.

I could name everyone I went to grade school with. Not just my class...EVERYONE I went to school with! I had 6 people in my class and there was only 2 in the grade below me. They combined us right up till I went to high school.

Everyone made the team at my school. You had to play sports, otherwise there wasn't enough people for the team. LOL

[Mackenzie]

Mackenzie......... Barn parties were the best weren't they? :D
I had some good ones at my house too. :)
I also rode my horse to the small store out here to buy my cigarettes.I can't believe they never told on me! :p

When your young...parties in houses aren't that fun because you can mess up a lot of stuff....that way you have it in a barn and no one cares!!! LOL!

[cbass1976]

LOL....how i can relate.....very nice CGT

[The Shadow]

i thought i would add some to this ...


The city limit signs had bullet holes in them !!!!!

Cruising the Dairy Queen on Friday and Saturday nites !!!

And of course no one ever admits to going cow tipping !! (all good country folk know about this )

[texascubfan]

It was ok to leave your doors unlocked on your house.

Likewise, you could leave your car unlocked and running while you ran in to get something.

You knew everyone in town, what they did, where they lived, what they drove, what their pets names were....

Helping at harvest time was an excused absence from school.

You didn't have to dial the whole 7 digits to call someone.

It was ok to just "walk in" at a friend's house.

You could just charge things at the store, gas station, ect. just by signing the reciept. No plastic needed.

You knew exactly which houses had the best stuff at Halloween.

Stores observed "other" holidays such as opening day of deer season, kids birthdays, school functions, weddings, ect. and would close down accordingly.

Everyone in town came to the school events, even if they didn't have kids that went there.

Your teacher taught more than one grade.

Anyone who moved into town (though viewed with a certain amount of suspicion) was certain to recieve either a cake, casserole, or pie from their various neighbors.



all true of my home town as well!

[Mackenzie]

i thought i would add some to this ...


The city limit signs had bullet holes in them !!!!!

Cruising the Dairy Queen on Friday and Saturday nites !!!

And of course no one ever admits to going cow tipping !! (all good country folk know about this )
OMG!!!! Cow Tippin'! YES!!!!!

Have you ever been sledding in a pasture??

[PantyFanatic]

Trying to imagine.:)

I read very word of this with total delight. :D





Well,…….. every word but “detox” and "cow tippin'". :confused:

[Scarecrow]

Anyone else ever move an outhouse in the middle of the night :)

[cowgirltease]

OMG!!!! Cow Tippin'! YES!!!!!

Have you ever been sledding in a pasture??
Yep yep still do.:D Ever been snipe huntin? :D :p

[PantyFanatic]

Yep yep still do.:D Ever been snipe huntin? :D :p
I'm not a stranger to the woods........... only the small town environment. ;)

[Pegasusx62]

never been snipe huntin Cowgirltease but I know some

country boys that tried to get me too LOL

[dreamgurl]

Ummm who told you we only have one stoplight? Lmao

[Lilith]

OMG!!!! Cow Tippin'! YES!!!!!

Have you ever been sledding in a pasture??
on a plastic trash can lid pulled by a truck? No , not me...that would be dangerous ;)

Went to a K-12 school, biggest graduating class ever, 30 :D

Couldn't have Chinese fire drills cause we only had one blinking yellow light:p So we would set a kitchen timer and drive around, when it went off we had to do one :p

[cowgirltease]

never been snipe huntin Cowgirltease but I know some

country boys that tried to get me too LOL
ROFLMAO! You mean you didn't fall for it? I did for about 2 minutes. :D

[fzzy]

Haven't been sledding in a pasture, but I have been ice scating (or at least making an attempt at ice scating) in one. :)

[jay-t]

cow tippin ---yep
outhouse movin or tippin ----yep
take the neighbors wagon apart & put it back together on TOP of his barn for Halloween---- yep
raid a watermelon patch and cool them in the swimmin hole----yep
take the slide from the school play ground to the swimmin hole for the summer--yep
drag races at 1 mile flat then run when the cops show up---you bet
have the cops pull you over with lights and siren going and ask if you want to go get a cup of coffee?-----yep
life is good in a small town

[dreamgurl]

My class was about 85 people but I still can name everyone of them, and only three hadn't been there when we started. And forshame how dare you guys go cow tipping without me, yes I know i'm going to be a Vet but still it's fun lol.

[Mackenzie]

For Halloween one year, we put a port o potty in my friends yard....she was so mad when she couldn't move it! LOL!

[Teddy Bear]

Every thing mentioned is so true!!

Anyone else ever hear of 'Cow plop BINGO'? First a big field is marked off in squares.... people buy a square.... then a cow is put in the field.... if it 'goes' in your square you win!! Very slow game. LOL. But usually its at a fair so while you wait you can watch the tractor pulls, take part in the watermelon seed spitting contest, see the 4-H entries and pig out on fair food!! :-)

[Mercury_Maniac]

yup most are true

[cowgirltease]

Every thing mentioned is so true!!

Anyone else ever hear of 'Cow plop BINGO'? First a big field is marked off in squares.... people buy a square.... then a cow is put in the field.... if it 'goes' in your square you win!! Very slow game. LOL. But usually its at a fair so while you wait you can watch the tractor pulls, take part in the watermelon seed spitting contest, see the 4-H entries and pig out on fair food!! :-)
Yeah we called it cow patty bingo at the fairs.I've seen it done with chickens too.lol Hey I was in a buffalo chip throwing contest. Anyone else done it? :D

[jay-t]

buffalo and cow chips, just be sure their dry all the way thru, we also had turkey races

[PantyFanatic]

*Stands in the corner listening* :shock:

[Teddy Bear]

I went to a one room school house when I was in first & second grade. One teacher, 20 kids, grades one through six. I was the only first grader and the following year I was the only second grader. We moved the summer after second grade and I went to a 'huge' school..... each grade had its own classroom and thier own teacher! There was only one third grade class of 31 kids but to me that was incredible! I was so excited to be with other kids my age!