The list so far:
1. You can name everyone you graduated with.
2. You know what 4-H means.
3. You used to "Drag" main.
4. You went to parties in a pasture, barn, at the gravel pit or in the middle of a road.
On monday, you could always tell who was at the party because of the scratches on their
legs from running through the woods, when the party was busted.
5. Your parents knew what you did before you got home.
6. "Go outside and play" never had to be said. "Be home before dark" did.
7. You whispered the " F " word and your parents knew before you got home
8. You scheduled parties around the schedules of the police officers that wouldn't bust you for partying
9. You get that late night call from the cheif of police from the village, complaining that mrs. such n such says your son is hanging out with his buddies making noise outside her house. And the cheif tell you to go get your son so he can go back to sleep.
10. Your parents let you walk to school and back each day, and never had to worry about whether or not you'd show up at either place.
11. At precisely 10 o'clock every night the one stoplight in town started to blink orange.
12. Dragging main consisted of driving 20 mph through town, pulling a U-turn at the convenience store at one end of town, then driving back and pulling a U-turn through the rest area at the other end of town.
13. If you got caught by the police, they took you to your front door and woke up your parents to tell them wnat happened. ( infanantly worse than being cited or arrested)
14. If you call the wrong number the person on the other end gives you the right one.
15. No one uses blinkers because we all know where they are going.
16. You can't go jogging for exercise because everyone stops you and asks if you need a ride home.
17. You could stop at every house on every block on Halloween.
18. The brightest and most crowded spot in town on a Friday night was the high school football stadium.
19. A kid walking around wearing saggy jeans and a hat turned sideways with his shoes untied was thought of as a little slow.
20. When a dog barks in town, everybody knows who's dog it is.
21. Your graduating class of 18 was the biggest in 2 decades
22. None of the roads are named or paved except the "one by the school" and "main" which is how they are identified.
23. It is/was not uncommon to have your parents show up or bring you to school in a tractor.
24. The post that had the city limit sign said "you are now entering and leaving" the name of your town.
25. You could walk into the local corner store, grab a loaf of bread, some milk and tell the owner to put it on your family's tab.
26. You could collect soda bottles, turn em in and buy some candy.
27. Ten cents would get you ten pieces of candy from the above store.
28. Every neighbor talked to every other neighbor.
29. When you had a birthday party the entire town came to it and there wasn't more than 35 people there.
A buncha small town folks around here, it seems.....
![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
:P 
