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I laugh when people are dependent on GPS, because they are going to have some issues ever visiting me.
My city friends will probably have a field day with the directions I give them... "Go down Main Street... well, it's the ONLY street so why would it need a sign saying it's "Main"? It's pretty self-explanatory... Unless you start driving in the river or through crops, you CAN'T miss it... After a few miles, turn right past the feed store... it's a feed store, how do you not know what that is? Look, it's a big red barn, okay? I don't know, it MIGHT have a sign that says "feed store"... Turn right, then an immediate left, past the blackberry patches, and my house is the one with the hay out front." (that's exactly how you get to my house LOL, hay and all)
I also thought it was pretty hilarious when someone asked if anyone in town had lost a goose, and posted a picture of that goose, and the goose's "friend" (another goose), and someone immediately know who those runaway geese belonged to. And the geese's names. LOL!
GPS can't find my house, either. Suits me just fine.
And when the UPS guy has something to deliver, he calls his wife and finds out if there's anything going on in town because he knows he'll find us all there.
Beyond that: You know you're living in a small town when you know where your kids are with the car because you can hear which friend's house they stopped at. (I never would fix the tail pipe on that old wagon. Sneaky, huh?)
GPS can't find my house, either. Suits me just fine.
And when the UPS guy has something to deliver, he calls his wife and finds out if there's anything going on in town because he knows he'll find us all there.
Beyond that: You know you're living in a small town when you know where your kids are with the car because you can hear which friend's house they stopped at. (I never would fix the tail pipe on that old wagon. Sneaky, huh?)
My Dad did you one better. He made me get specialized plates with my name on them. EVERYBODY knew where I was in town. And, yes, he got reports...
I had a 15 year old rust-orange Pinto station wagon.
There was no need for either personalized plates OR a noisy exhaust. There was no doubt whose car it was.
I think one of the best ways of knowing whether or not you live in a small town is whether or not GPS thinks your address exists. Apparently my house is nowhere to be found, except by the locals
Our GPS believes we live in the tool shed of a neighbor's two doors down from us. Thankfully, UPS and FedEx have always found us.
I had a 15 year old rust-orange Pinto station wagon.
There was no need for either personalized plates OR a noisy exhaust. There was no doubt whose car it was.
I was one of three people in my town who drove a Gremlin. All three were different colors so everyone knew if I was out and about. They especially knew when the muffler fell out.
You stop in at the local car dealer 3 hours after they close in the evening and you can open any car on the lot to check out the inside or pop the hood and look the engine over. Helps you decide if there is something there that you want to go check out closer when it's daylight and they are open for business.
This happened to my SIL. Her daughter followed the GPS to an unused or maintained dirt road and had to be rescued by the neighbor at night and in the rain. They used a tractor to retrieve the rental car the next morning.
BTW these roads are a LOT smoother when covered with packed snow instead of broken pavement and loose gravel.
You know you live in a small town when your town actually has several literal village bicycles laying about for anyone's use. And they are still there years later.
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Our GPS believes we live in the tool shed of a neighbor's two doors down from us. Thankfully, UPS and FedEx have always found us.
