Joke of the Day - April 29
 

You know you're from a small town if...

• You can name everyone you graduated with.
  
• You know what 4-H is.
  
• You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a dirt road.
  
• You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones would bust you and which ones wouldn't- same goes with the game warden.
  
• You ever went cow tipping or snipe hunting.
  
• School gets cancelled for state events.
  
• You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and if you were old they'd tell your parents anyhow).
  
• It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town.
  
• You had senior skip day.
  
• The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
  
• You don't give directions by street names or directions by references (turn by Nelson's house, go two blocks east Anderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field).
  
• The country club golf course had only 9 holes.
  
• You can't help but date a friend's ex-girlfriend.
  
• Your car stays filthy because of the dirt roads, and you will never own a dark vehicle for this reason.
  
• You think kids that ride skateboards are weird.
  
• The town next to you is considered "trashy" or "snooty", but is actually just like your town.
  
• Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise
  
• You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich people."
  
• The people in the city dress funny, then you pick-up on the trend two years later.
  
• Anyone you want can be found at either the Dairy Queen or the feed store.
  
• You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town.
  
• Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.
  
• The city council meets at the coffee shop.
  
• Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart.
  
• Even the ugly people enter beauty pageants.
  
• Your teacher calls you by your older siblings names.
  
• Your teachers remember when they taught your parents.
  
• The closest McDonald's is 45 miles away.
  
• So is the closest mall.
  
• It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawn mower.

WOw, where'd you grow up? the deep south? I shared some of the experiences, but the tractor factor was a bit much... never realized how small my town was...

Makes one think about whether the good ole days were

as such

Reminds me of where I had to go on Easter to see some of my wife's extended family. They live in White Bird, Idaho. Population 106. It is so small, that there are no POLICE.

I was held prisoner of war in Iowa for four years, and you just described my complete existence there.