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You Might Be From A
Small Town If...

If you live in a big city, you probably can't relate to this next one. I live in a small town and boy, does this person have it pegged.

YOU MIGHT BE FROM A SMALL TOWN IF:

1. You can name everyone you graduated with. (And you end your sentences in prepositions!!)
2. You get a whiff of manure and think of home.
3. You know what 4-H is.
4. You used to drag "main."
5. You swore and your parents knew within the hour.
6. Almost everyone in your school also has a cousin in your school.
7. No place sells gas on Sunday.
8. It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town.
9. You have ever gone for a walk in the cemetery, on a date.
10. You had senior skip day.
11. Whenever you decided to walk to school for exercise, twenty cars pulled over and offered you a lift.
12. You could set your bookbag out in the hall at lunchtime and it would still be there when you came out of the cafeteria.
13. You know all the veterans carrying the flags in the 4th of July parade. You know everybody in the 4th of July parade.
14. Loitering isn't a bad thing, it's the only thing.
15. The Shell station and IGA are the only franchised businesses in town.
16. When there's a funeral in town, everything closes except the Shell station and the IGA.
17. You refer to THE stop sign.
18. You don't give directions by street names or house numbers, but by references ("Turn right by Harold's Hardware, go two blocks past Anderson's and it's the fourth house on the left past the football field.")
19. YOU CALL LUNCH-DINNER AND DINNER-SUPPER!!!!!!!
20. You want to share this with your small town friends (because you can relate to 99% of these), but they do not have e-mail yet!!!!!

A COOL FACT
Where and when were the first traffic stop signs used?
You might think that stop signs were an offshoot of the invention of automobiles, but actually they were used centuries before in ancient Rome.
The Romans were great builders of roads, aqueducts, and other public works. Their dense city had many of the problems we have in our cities today, including air pollution, crowding, and heavy traffic. Coming to a stop at a busy corner makes sense whether your vehicle is a car or a horse-drawn chariot, and the Romans were smart enough to make it the law where appropriate.
Parking was also an issue in ancient Rome, and various laws addressed the problem. Improperly parked vehicles were subject to fines, just as they are today.

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