You know you live in a small town when..........

[Kayla]

1. There is only one stop sign or stop light(oh and the stop sign might say stop on both sides)

2. When you are related to almost all of the population

3. When your dog dies and get sympathy cards

4. When kids getting their lunch money stole at school makes the front page

5. When you can walk out your front door and see both sides of the city limits.

6. Your town phone book ain't got no yellow pages

7. You call a wrong number and talk for an hour because you know them too

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

9. The New Year's baby wasn't born until January 25th.

10. When the last traffic jam was when a cow got in the road.

[John81]

Hey, I live there! :lol:

[IM4given]

Hey I grew up there!

You know you are from a small town when...

11. you do something naughty and your parents know about it before you get home!

12. there is a traffic accident in town and a crowd gathers round the scene of the accident to help the victims pull the car out of the ditch.

13. when the police officer who pulls you over for speeding is also the pastor of your church! (You know what next Sunday's sermon will be! LOL!)

14. when the kids/teens all hang out on the one corner with the one and only stop light so they can wave and talk and visit to whomever happens to pull up to the light.

15. when the telephone book is about the size of the church bulletin.

[John81]

Ain't it the truth Janet!

[chev1958]

That's Anita, Iowa! (except no stop signs on Main Street)

[John81]

Yeah, our main street has no stops either. I like it better that way. :Green

[Ron]

16. when you walk off of your property in any direction, you walk into a new town! :lol:

[kevinmiller]

17. when you notice that the Volunteer Fire Dept. put up a new sign out front.

[chev1958]

18. Every tractor, farm wagon, and riding lawnmower within a 20-mile radius participates in the 4th of July parade. (Kids in the wagon waving)

19. The farmers market sets up on Main Street.

[dadof4]

20. When you are driving in the middle of nowhere and you see a house. On the side of the road you see a green sign with the name of a city and the population of 5 listed underneath the name of the city.

This actually happened with me on a vacation once. We saw over half the population outside playing - 3 kids!

[chev1958]

21. The fire department's mascot dies, and the entire town turns out for its funeral.

[falin115]

22. you get pulled over for running THE stop sign.

23. when the town population is hand painted on the sign.

[chev1958]

24. Your town's welcome sign looks something like this:

[IM4given]

Or the largest building in the county, is the courthouse built in 1886...

[chev1958]

We don't even have a courthouse - it's in the neighboring town.