You live in a small town, if…..
01. You can name everyone with whom you graduated.
02. You know what 4-H is, and WHY.
03. You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a dirt road.
04. You used to drag “main.”
05. You said the “F” word and your parents knew, within the hour.
06. You scheduled parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you knew which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn’t — same goes with the game warden.
07. You ever went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.
08. School gets cancelled for state sporting events.
09. It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town.
10. You had “senior skip day”.
11. You can’t help but date a friend’s ex-girlfriend or boyfriend.
12. Your car stays filthy because of the dirt roads, and you will never own a dark vehicle for this reason.
13. The town next to you is considered “trashy” or “snooty”, but is actually identical to your town.
14. Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise.
15. You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
16. Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the feed store.
17. You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town.
18. Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer, to “get stronger”.
19. Directions are given using “the” stop light as a reference.
20. Your letter jacket was worn after your 19th birthday.
21. “Weekend excitement” involves a trip to a Wal-Mart.
22. Even the ugly people enter beauty contests.
23. You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.
24. Your teachers call you by your older siblings’ names.
25. Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.
26. You can charge at all the local stores.
27. It’s normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.
28. You can drive golf carts, 4 wheelers, and go carts in town.
29. When someone gets pulled over, the whole town drives by at least twice.
30. Everyone else hears it on their scanners.
31. You have ever partied with a guy who is 25, has no job, but is the “buyer” for all of the best parties.
32. Almost everyone in your school also has a cousin in your school.
33. Your only newspaper was a “weekly”.
34. It doesn’t take much to amuse you.
35. Your first smoke is straw, out in the barn.
36. Your summer swimming is often done in a pond or a gravel pit, and none of you were wearing any clothes.
37. You never wait long at stop lights, but regularly wait 15 minutes at the railroad crossings.
38. You still have “party lines”.
39. There is only ONE TV station you can get (with an outside antenna) and IT goes off the air at 10 PM, every night.
40. The local “sex kitten” got pregnant and everyone knows who the father is, but decides NOT to tell her hubby.