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You know you live in a small town when you notice as you are leaving that you forgot to close the door on the mailbox out at the street when you picked up the mail. An hour later when you get home, you find that someone has closed it as they were walking past. Wouldn't want it to get all wet in side in case it rains.
You can't wait to leave when you graduate high school.
Untrue!
I would say it's a fairly even split among the people I grew up with. Those who can't wait to leave town and those who adore town are just two different camps. I loved my small hometown and was sad when it was time to go. If there were more jobs there for the college educated (I already worked the only applicable one there, for close to a decade), I'd live there now.
"You call a wrong number and are supplied with the correct one."
I do this all the time for the wrong numbers that call me. One lady gets upset when her child gets sick and uses our prefix and her doctors suffix. The result is that it call me instead of her doctor. I just remind her what she has done and she calms down.
A very busy volunteer in our town has a telephone one number off from ours. I tell them what they have done and give them the right number to call.
She got an envelope addressed to 'Grandma' and the name of her town & the zipcode. The postmaster was pretty sure she was the only one w/grandkids in the town it was postmarked from.
Of course that was before they started sending all the mail to a central location and everything gets the same postmark...no more postmarks from the small towns anymore.
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Originally Posted by starwalker
you know you live in a small town when, after chatting with some tourists in the laundromat while the kids played and y'all did the wash, you get a letter addressed to "the family with the 5 blonde daughters, Davenport, WA" and it was actually meant for you and was delivered without fuss by the postman to your box.
I would say it's a fairly even split among the people I grew up with. Those who can't wait to leave town and those who adore town are just two different camps. I loved my small hometown and was sad when it was time to go. If there were more jobs there for the college educated (I already worked the only applicable one there, for close to a decade), I'd live there now.
I agree. Here people move away, but once they start having kids, they quickly move back. Its not always true of course, but it happens a lot.
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