You Know You Live in a Small Town When... (colleges, Augusta, city)
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Had to laugh... The other day I went to the new Wally World in the next town over. You know you're in a rural area when there's a whole section in the pet dept with horse & cattle halters & leadropes, saddleblankets, feed tubs, bags of chicken grit & salt blocks for livestock!
The only bar for miles around sells, according to the sign out front,
COLD beer, bread, cigarettes, crawlers and live bait. Yum.
A couple more that have struck me in the past few weeks...
1) The radio broadcasts the girls' volleyball games now, same as the boys' football & basketball games.
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Now that is actually progress! Around here, friday nights everyone listens to the radio for the high school games. Of course, if you bother to drive the twenty miles to the high school, the girls basketball team will just blow you away.
You know when you are in a small town (I went to a college in a very small town):
-When there is only one traffic light that was just built last year because 2 more residents moved there.
-You enter the town, blink and suddenly the town is long behind you
-When there is a traffic jam, consisting of three cars, cause a cow is in the middle of the one and only road that goes through the town.
-You get pulled over by a cop on a cow and the entire town knows about it by night fall.
Wow, your town has a cop!? You're must live in the big city!
As a kid, my dad had a ranch. The "town" that our address was part was on a dirt road...it dead ended at the town. It consisted of 5 grain silos, a school that closed in the '50s and was currently used as a grange hall, an old one-bay fire station with one oooold truck (volunteer of course), a grocery, gas station, and post office all in one building. The post office was behind the store counter. "Hey, Pete. Any mail for me today?"
The gas pumps closed in 1974, the grocery in 1977..."town" population was 18.
Our town was so small the city powerplant was a Sears Diehard...
Your dog is found 5 miles from your house from chasing varmints and it doesn't bite the person that brought it back home because it knows and trusts everybody in the town.
We have an election coming soon in Maine. When I drive into the city I see lots of signs up: "No on #1", "Yes on #5", ...
But I am wondering what these ballet choices are?
While driving I listen to the radio. We have a Christian station that never discusses local politics. We have Public Broadcasting which is more about over-seas stuff. And we have 'big radio' which goes on and on about Boston politics [which is not even in this state].
Granted I have google so I will find the ballet choices.
But one thing about being rural, is that sometimes you just don’t have any 'local' radio stations.
Now I know that if I keep scanning while I am in the city, I can find a few weak radio stations. And maybe one of them will have local stuff. But when I drive home those stations are usually lost in the static. A few times I have preset my radio to one of those stations, and just got frustrated when the signal fades.
Forest, do you need a list of the 13 Bangor,ME FM Stations that are over 50,000 watts and broadcast very easily the 20-25 miles from their transmitters to Argyle? I lived in Maine for 20 years and worked out of your area for years and had zero problems getting LOCAL news, sports and weather. Never once did I hear Bostons news or weather on a Bangor station. Shoot, some of those stations I listened to up in the Presque Isle area which a LOT further away that Argyle.
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