You Know You Live in a Small Town When... (lake, house, gas)

[CCc girl]

Ellk, I meant everyone! {{{hug}}}

Yeah, I know if I went to the farm it would be cheaper but the gas money pretty much negates any savings. The feed store is only sixteen miles out.

[country pride]

Originally Posted by John1960

You Know You Live in a Small Town When...

The "road hog" in front of you on Main Street is a farmer's
combine.

The local phone book has only one yellow page.

Third Street is on the edge of town.

You leave your jacket on the back of the chair in the cafe,
and when you go back the next day, it's still there, on the
same chair.

You don't signal turns because everyone knows where you're
going anyway.

No social events can be scheduled when the school gym floor
is being varnished.

You call a wrong number and are supplied with the correct
one.

Everyone knows all the news before it's published; residents
read the hometown paper just to see whether the publisher
got it right.

Lol back in the town I'm from, in WI, that of so accurate! But, our phone book looks more like a brochure than a book. :-)

[CCc girl]

LOL WW, our phone book is our town and the next two. It's 6X8 and about 3/4 of an inch thick.

[itsMeFred]

Ours is the southwest part of the state; four counties and 12 or 13 towns.


It was 3/4" of an inch when I fluffed up the pages before measuring.

[DanielAvery]

So we have a local woman who runs an animal-rescue charity. She had a debit card set up to pay veterinarians, etc. as part of that charity, and someone attempted to use her debit card to buy things for themselves. But this is a really small town, and the post office is full of busybodies who know everybody and everybody's business.

The identity thief signed the name of the woman on the purchases, but put their own address as the place to have the purchases mailed. But of course our PO folks know everyone, so they looked at the name on the boxes and dis-regarded the "faulty" addresses--I mean, everybody knows "her" and where she lives, right? Obviously this company made some mistake when filling out the shipping label, right? So they left her a note in her PO box saying her packages had arrived. The woman checked (knowing she had not recently bought anything) and found the ID thief's purchases along with their address on all the loot. Should be easy to pick the jerk(s) up. Ah, small town life.

[cupper3]

The village administrative officer sends this Facebook posting out. Definitely small town.

[PDD]

You know you live in a small town if the General store also sells guns and ammo. Like it does in our town.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by PDD

You know you live in a small town if the General store also sells guns and ammo. Like it does in our town.

I think all of them do that.

[linda814]

We knew we moved to a small town when we needed an answer to a question about who owned the large tower on our property and after visiting three offices in the same building and no one can give us a straight answer..we go home and get a call from the owner..my husband's 2nd cousin.... who he never met and didn't know our number..he must have had his cell or his Progresso soup can burning up from the locals who we talked to, and who we left our number with...found our answer real quick...

[Chriscross309]

1).You know you live in a small town when one person mows the lawns of everyone in the town.

2).When you can't use your debit card or find an ATM anywhere.