You Know You Live in a Small Town When... (farm, shed, business)

[elston]

I grew up in a small town back before dial phones; I remember as a kid coming home and Mom not being there as she always was!!!! The phone rang and when I picked it up the operator told me that my Mom had to go out to help a neighbor and would be home before supper. I could go out in the yard but not to go off. I guess it does take a village and a friendly telephone operator, or at least it did.

[rdlr]

You know you live in MY small town, when you're in line at the drive thru bank, and the customer in front of you is in an Amish buggy.

[mcorrales]

I just moved from OC in SoCal 10 months ago (town of 1700 in PA) and you know you live in a small town when
- the local postmaster comes to your home to return the change from a mistake he made in giving you your change
- the local librarian does not charge you a late fee on all 15 of your books cause she knew your DIL was having eye surgery and you were watching the kids
- when your neighbor mows your lawn cause he is retired and your son isn't
- when your neighbor attends your granddaughters dance recital and she has no kids
- when your neighbor comes over to help with your new garden cause its your first
- when a 75 year old neighbor walks through your yard to get to the cemetery everyday to visit her dead husband and waters your plants (if they need it)
- when the same neighbor comes by to tell you that the strawberry plants are worth saving and how to do it
- when everyone in town knows that you have two little yorkies cause everyone else has hunting dogs
- when the tractor dealership is also the town's mechanic
- when a sit down dinner other than at home is at the church, fire hall or ambulance service
- If you are looking to purchase something used, just tell a neighbor and someone will knock on your door sooner or later to tell you they have one

Life in a small town is wonderful!!!!

[ComputerUser000]

Originally Posted by mcorrales

I just moved from OC in SoCal 10 months ago (town of 1700 in PA) and you know you live in a small town when
- the local postmaster comes to your home to return the change from a mistake he made in giving you your change
- the local librarian does not charge you a late fee on all 15 of your books cause she knew your DIL was having eye surgery and you were watching the kids
- when your neighbor mows your lawn cause he is retired and your son isn't
- when your neighbor attends your granddaughters dance recital and she has no kids
- when your neighbor comes over to help with your new garden cause its your first
- when a 75 year old neighbor walks through your yard to get to the cemetery everyday to visit her dead husband and waters your plants (if they need it)
- when the same neighbor comes by to tell you that the strawberry plants are worth saving and how to do it
- when everyone in town knows that you have two little yorkies cause everyone else has hunting dogs
- when the tractor dealership is also the town's mechanic
- when a sit down dinner other than at home is at the church, fire hall or ambulance service
- If you are looking to purchase something used, just tell a neighbor and someone will knock on your door sooner or later to tell you they have one

Life in a small town is wonderful!!!!

Yes, small town life is wonderful... people usually love finding out when I move to town, since I am the local radio dj

[okpondlady]

Originally Posted by SOON2BNSURPRISE

The family I was visiting wanted to know if I knew the guy. I told them that I didn't know him at all. One of there daughters, a high school girl herself asked me how I could not know someone that I had gone to High school with. She said that she knew everyone at her high school. I told her that I didn't know how you could know everyone at the high school because our high school had 2,500+ students. Her head dropped because there wern't even 2,500 people in the town, and they knew everyone of those that were in the town.

Being from a small town but not the one I grew up in, I relate to that. Everyone knows EVERYONE..we started to Kindergarten together and graduated together. I was closer to most of them than I was to my family.

[MICoastieMom]

You know you live in a small town when you are newly arrived and retired neighbors you barely know call to ask you to please come over and sign the check for your car insurance because their daughter works in a different department of the insurance company which is located in a neighboring town, but somebody recognized the address and knew her parents lived there. Wouldn't it have been simpler for them to mail the check back to us? And here is the kicker! We were so stunned that instead of returning the check by mail, we gave it back to the parents to give to the daughter to give to her colleague at the insurance company in the neighboring town!

[cynwldkat]

For each and every negative reason people have about living in a small town there seems to be three times as many wonderful reasons to love a small town and the people who live there!!! Life, for us, is wonderful living in a small town!!

[Draconiator]

You know you live in a (NORTHERN) small town if - Your town holds a snowplow parade to celebrate the end of winter! (True story, we had like 40-50 plows, heh)

[mochajackson]

You know you live in a small town if you dated someone in high school only to find out that you're related to them.
OMG!! that one is scary..
You know your in a small town if you did something bad .. got whipped by every neighbor on the way home, and another one when you got there..
good old fashoin dicipline.. OUCH!

[clairz]

These are from when we lived in a small New Hampshire town.

You know you live in a small town when...

You buy a house on the High Street and it doesn't come with a front door key because nobody ever thought of locking it up before.

You hang out your laundry on a Saturday and your kids get teased at school on Monday about their underwear being out on the line.

The kids playing at the park all come over to your house to use the bathroom because they heard you got a new "jet" toilet.

Your boss at the library explains that part of your job is just chatting with people when they come in. She also tells you that if you ever have an emergency at home you can just put a note on the door and temporarily close the library.

The town librarian asks the Library Board for a heater for her work room and they vote to buy her long underwear instead.

~clairz