I grew up in a village (pop. 20 - winter, 60 - summer - all holiday home) and can quite easily answer guilty/yes to almost all counts. This was in the UK, so removed all references to American food/places as not relevant.
BTW, DandyDon stop making fun of people who spent their lives this way!!
1 You can name everyone you graduated with.
only kid in town
3. You ever went to parties at a pasture, barn, or in the middle of a dirt road.
ALL the time
4. Your idea of a FUN weekend was riding around parking lots because that is where EVERYBODY was.
Didnt have a proper parking lot
7. You ever went cow-tipping or snipe hunting.
guilty again
8. School gets canceled for city, county, or state events.
or snow, we were a 13 mile, 1 hour bus ride away from school, and i was a 2 mile, 30 min walk from the bus stop
11. Everyone thought it was really cool to date someone from the neighboring town.
proved to be a pain as the next town was several miles away and biking there was all up hill
12. You had senior skip day.
again yes
13. The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
yes
14. You don't give directions by street names, but, instead, like this: Turn right by Nelson's house, go two blocks east past Anderson's, and it's four houses left of the track field.
only one road in and out
16. You can't help but date a friends ex-boyfriend/girlfriend.
easy
17. You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich people."
i still do
18. The people in the city dress funny, then your town picks up on the trend a few years later.
whole county
21. You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town.
knew all tractor drivers
23. Directions are given using "the" stoplight as a reference.
none for 13 miles - therefore no
26. You decide to walk somewhere for exercise and 5 people pull over and ask if you need a ride.
same thing walking to school
30. So is the closest shopping mall.
a few more than 30 miles
31. It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawnmower.
or tractor
32. You have a good laugh reading this because you know they're all true.
very much so
34. You recognized every car/truck/tractor that drove down your road and knew where they were going.
still remember who even now
35. Downtown was the only place you found streets, Main St. First St., Second St., etc. We live on roads.
only one road, no actual name
37.
Sat. and Sun were spent on water doing fun stuff or in woods riding bike or the like.
39. Only 'rich' kids got cars of their own. No one was ashamed to be seen riding a bicycle after the age of 15.
til 17
41. You learned to drive in a cow pasture or school yard.
again yes, it was a learning experience, same with shooting
42.
The local police were 13 miles away therefore were no help for anything
43. Most summer jobs were farm related.
and the rest of the year and on weekends
45.
woods and forest were safe places to go, not like now when weirdos live there and kill people there
There are probably many more things that were different than living in "the city", but i did get bored to tears in the country when i wasnt able to be doing stuff. The city sucked all my money out when i lived there, not so with the country!
