| Life In Minnesota's small towns |
| I guess we can safely say that life in all small towns are about the same. But these are the Minnesota pages so I'll concentrate on life in Minnesota's small towns. You know you live in a small town when.... third street is the edge of town. you don't use your turn signals because everyone knows where you're going. you speak to each dog you pass by name and he wags his tail at you. you drive into the ditch five miles out of town and the word gets back before you do. you dial a wrong number an talk for 15 minutes anyway. you can't walk for exercise because every car that passes you offers you a ride. you miss a Sunday at church and receive a get-well card. someone asks you how you feel and listens to what you say. you can't do anything wrong because everyone knows who your parents are. you had to come into the house when the street lights came on. there were no school buses because everyone lived within six blocks of school. you played games and ran races in the street. you know what freeze tag, Captain may I, red light - green light, and statues are. you can name everyone in your graduating class. you ever went to a party in a barn. you know what 4-H is. you plan your hunting trips because you know when the warden is on duty. the whole school went to the same party after graduation exercises. anyone who has a house less than 15 years old is considered rich. it's not unusual to see someone you know driving a tractor through town. you finally got a stop light. a trip to Walmart is the highlight of the week. ugly girls enter beauty pageants. teachers talk about when they taught your parents. the local phone book only has two yellow pages. you call a wrong number and the party gives you the one you want. main street is only two blocks long you went shooting BB guns in the gravel pit. you schedules social events around the varnishing of the school gym floor. the golf course only has nine holes. done doughnuts in a frozen corn field. when you get a whiff of manure you think of home. you know what a "headlight party" is. when school is cancelled during state sporting events. when everyone in your graduating class is in the homecoming parade. when you had to order your clothes from a catalog because you're an hour away from a mall. when long distance calls are delayed because the area code is busy. when they widened the road to paint a line down the middle. there are three rooms in the local motel. the class valedictorian was the only one his his graduating class. it takes you three hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush, because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town. someone in a store offers to help you even if he/she doesn't even work there. |
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