Small Towns

I am from a small town in Texas called Dalhart. Dalhart has 7,534 people and about 10 million cattle. I graduated with 88 other people. Our high school had 376 (yes, that is exact). Small town life is different than city life.

You know you are from a small town if......
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1. You can name everyone you graduated with.
2. You know what 4-H is and you can name all the H's.
3. You ever went to a party that was held about 20 miles down a deserted dirt road.
4. You've held a party 20 miles down a deserted dirt road...and there was no building at the end of that road.
5. You went to a General Store for the essential groceries.
6. You said the 'F' word and your parents knew within an hour.
7. You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers since you know which ones would bust you.
8. You ever went or thought about going cow-tipping.
9. School gets canceled for a sports team going to State.
10. You could never buy cigarettes cause all the store clerks knew how old you were.
11. When you did find someone old enough to buy smokes for you, you had to drive down country backroads to smoke them.
12. You never missed a Homecoming parade.
13. You still go home for Homecoming.
14. You push a "buggie" when you go to Wal-Mart, not a shopping cart.
15. Teachers didn't plan any quizzes or tests on Senior Skip Day.
16. The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
17. It's normal for kids to be absent from school during hunting season.
18. Your car is allways filthy from the dirt backroads.
19. You are always "fixin" to do something.
20. It takes 10 min to walk down your driveway.
21. Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise.
22. You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich people."
23. It's normal for people to wear "coveralls" to school.
24. You bragged to your friends because you got bigger tires on your truck for your birthday.
25. On Saturdays, anyone you want to find can be found at Main Street or the local resturants.
26. Weekend excitement involves having a barn party...where you build a barn.
27. You see nothing wrong with having a shot-gun in the back window of your pick-up.
28. You decide to walk for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask you if you need a ride.
29. Your teachers call you by your older sibling's name.
30. The closest "cool stores" (this does not include Gebo's or Auto Zone) are at least 30 miles
away.
31. Local businesses close early Friday night for the home football game.
32. If you've ever been in a traffic jam behind a tractor.
33. You've ever caused a traffic jam while driving a tractor.
34. You've ever caused a traffic jam while moving cattle.
35. The sherriff has ever called you because your cattle are causing a traffic jam.

Thats small town life. Love it or leave it. Most kids leave it...and get far far away...and then get sucked back into it and die a horribly miserable and lonely death after being married to the same person for 50 years and getting lung cancer from all those cigarettes smoked on the back roads even though they didn't ever really love the person they just didn't want to be alone.