You might be from a small town if:

1. You can name everyone you graduated with2. You get a whiff of manure and think of home3. You know what 4-H is4. You ever went to „headlight parties“5. You used to drag „main“6. You said the ‚f‘ word and your parents knew within the hour7. You schedule parties around the schedule of different police officers, since you know which ones will bust you and which ones won’t8. You ever went cow-tipping9. You have ever partied with a guy who is 25, has no job, but is the ‚buyer‘ for all of the best parties10. You have parties at the same guy’s house12. School gets cancelled for state sporting events13. The town social events are their children’s14. You could never buy cigarettes because all the store clerks knew how old you were (and, if you were old enough, they’d tell your parents, anyhow)15. When you did find someone old enough and brave enough to buy smokes, you still had to go out to the country and drive on back roads to smoke them16. Social acceptance in town depended on the approval of the five old (but rich) hags that met each morning at the donut shop for the latest smut17. You were ever in the Homecoming parade18. You have ever gone home for Homecoming19. You fix up to go buy milk lest anyone starts the rumor that you have gained weight or quit taking care of youself20. No place sells gas on Sunday21. Friday nights fun consisted of standing in line for the one screen theater and since it was sold out, watching truckers and drinking coffee at the truck stop (the only place open after 10)22. You have to drive an hour to buy a pair of socks23. It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town24. You have ever gone for a walk in the cemetery, on a date25. You ordered your waredrobe out of a catalog26. You had senior skip day27. The whole school went to the same party after graduation28. The only ‚clique‘ that nobody would be nice to was the skurves across the street30. You don’t give directions by street names or house numbers, but you give directions by references (turn by Armstrongs‘ Liquor, go two blocks past Andersons‘, and it’s four houses left of the track field)