YOU MIGHT BE FROM A SMALL TOWN IF...

1. You can name everyone you graduated with.

1a. Your graduation lasted 20 minutes.

2. You get a whiff of manure and think of home.

3. You know what 4-H is.

3a. You can walk through the entire county fair in 15 minutes.

4. You ever went to "headlight parties". 4a. Your busiest intersection does not have a stoplight.

5. You used to drag "main".

5a. You noticed when there was a new car in town.

6. You said the 'f' word and your parents knew within the hour.

7. You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones will bust you and which ones won't.

8. You ever went cow tipping.

8a. You have gone to an auction as a social gathering.

9. You have ever partied with a guy who is 25, has no job, but is the 'buyer' for all of the best parties.

10. You have parties at the same guy's house.

11. Your best friend is a beer whore.

12. School gets canceled for state sporting events.

13. The town social events are their children's.

14. You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and if you were old enough, they'd tell your parents anyhow).

15. When you did find someone old enough and brave enough to buy smokes, you still had to go out to the country and drive on back roads to smoke them.

16. Social acceptance in town depended on the approval of the five old (but rich) hags that met each morning at the donut shop for the latest smut.

17. You were ever in the Homecoming parade.

18. You have ever gone home for Homecoming.

19. You fix up to go buy milk lest anyone starts the rumor that you have gained weight or quit taking care of yourself.

20. No place sells gas on Sunday.

21. Friday nights fun consisted of standing in line for the one screen theater and since it was sold out, watching truckers and drinking coffee at the truck stop (the only place open after 10).

22. You have to drive an hour to buy a pair of socks.

23. It was cool to date someone from neighboring town.

24. You have ever gone for a walk in the cemetery, on a date.

25. You ordered your wardrobe out of a catalog.

26. You had senior skip day.

27. The whole school went to the same party after graduation.

28. The only 'clique' that nobody would be nice to was the skurves across the street.

29. You know the name of the one person who has no job, sleeps in his car, and is always at the convenience store.

30. You don't give directions by street names or house numbers, but you give directions by references (turn by the Dairy Queen, go two blocks past the Miller's, and it's four houses left of the football field).

31. When you talk about ordinary occurrences at your Hometown, big city friends start laughing and say, "You did what?"

32. You actually go to the post office to get your mail.

33. You hope that you have enough people to make a varsity football team.

34. You can recognize 5 or more different types of farm machinery and tell what it is used for.

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