You know you live in a small town when...

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Everyone in the neighborhood knows your next-door neighbor is a jerk to put it kindly - people say other words that I will not repeat about him.

Had a few of those! "Oh yeah, I know him....... That guy."

 

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Had a few of those! "Oh yeah, I know him....... That guy."

Yess!

 

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When the neighbor sets your field on fire because he was burning a deer carcass on a dry July day and the first you hear of it is when you see plumes of black billowing smoke coming from your line of pine trees, so you run to go see what's going on and the neighbor has his sons out there beating the fire with pans telling you to stay back so you and your sister go running and screaming and yelling to your mom and bring up buckets of water and someone calls the fire department. Meanwhile, your dad's out and about somewhere for work and randomly, really randomly, runs across a guy telling his buddies "Yeah, just got paged, some guy's house is on fire up in *village name*, I'm heading out." and your dad goes "Yeah, that's my place" and they say "Great, lead the way" (that's the "small town" part) and they get there and by the time they've arrived your dad has reasoned he doesn't need to beat the neighbor because really, he did want that portion of the field cleared anyways, and the fire's been put out successfully and the neighbor now owes you a brisket (he never paid up). Then your dad starts mowing a fire break as a total joke just to tell the neighbor, when he asks "Hey! How do you like my fire break?", but he never asks and moves out and now you have a full ten acre perimeter fire line and it's actually pretty convenient and no one else has set your field on fire since then.

May or may not have been this particular individual. ^^

Yess!

 

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When the town celebrity roles by on his tractor with a mile long line of cars behind him and you're not even surprised.

 

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When the neighbor sets your field on fire because he was burning a deer carcass on a dry July day and the first you hear of it is when you see plumes of black billowing smoke coming from your line of pine trees, so you run to go see what's going on and the neighbor has his sons out there beating the fire with pans telling you to stay back so you and your sister go running and screaming and yelling to your mom and bring up buckets of water and someone calls the fire department. Meanwhile, your dad's out and about somewhere for work and randomly, really randomly, runs across a guy telling his buddies "Yeah, just got paged, some guy's house is on fire up in *village name*, I'm heading out." and your dad goes "Yeah, that's my place" and they say "Great, lead the way" (that's the "small town" part) and they get there and by the time they've arrived your dad has reasoned he doesn't need to beat the neighbor because really, he did want that portion of the field cleared anyways, and the fire's been put out successfully and the neighbor now owes you a brisket (he never paid up). Then your dad starts mowing a fire break as a total joke just to tell the neighbor, when he asks "Hey! How do you like my fire break?", but he never asks and moves out and now you have a full ten acre perimeter fire line and it's actually pretty convenient and no one else has set your field on fire since then.

This is awfully specific

 

[SunriseChickers]

This is awfully specific

Nah, I thought it was pretty general and vague! I'm sure it happens to folks all the time.

 

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Oh, here's a good one

When a goat shows up at the entrance hall of the school

 

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When your only stop light is a red blinky one.

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