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Just "how small" is your town............;-).

Apr 24, 2006 10:47AM PDT

I once visited a town that was so small...

* the clinic was called Joe's Hospital and Grill

* long distance calls are delayed when the area code is busy

* the town Lady of the Evening stands under a flashlight

* in order to paint traffic lines, the road had to be widened

* instead of hoses, the Fire Department uses water pistols

* you had to make a reservation to use the parking meter

* during snowstorms, salt was spread using a salad shooter

* the local Motel 6 sleeps six

* during a boxing match, both men have to sit in the same corner

* the class valedictorian had both the highest & lowest averages

* the Mayor was also the Sheriff, Town Council & street sweeper

* we had no porn movie house; once a week someone left the shades up

* the municipal water system's pump was supplied by Water Pik

* before you visited, you could look out a window & see who was home

* there was no town idiot -- everybody had to take turns

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So small,
Apr 24, 2006 11:19AM PDT

that when you plug in the toaster, the street light dims

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(NT) (NT) The golf course has 1 hole
Apr 24, 2006 11:35AM PDT
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So small...
Apr 24, 2006 7:14PM PDT

...that the ambulance and the hearse are the same vehicle...

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(NT) (NT) My town: That's true.
Apr 25, 2006 4:55AM PDT
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It is so small that..........
Apr 24, 2006 11:02PM PDT

The cross town bus does not move. People enter from the front and exit from the back to get to their destinations.

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(NT) (NT) My town: No bus - but we got bus stops!
Apr 25, 2006 4:56AM PDT
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Our town
Apr 24, 2006 11:49PM PDT

Our town is so small....

When applying for grants the ink alone exceeds the budget.

A person's driveway is the youth center.

Mail is delivered w/o leaving the Post Office which is the letterbox along the road.

The baseball field is reconditioned every yr. by replacing the rake and regassing the mower, once.

The local watering hole is easily supplied by 1 six-pack.

A traffic ticket is written for three towns.

The loacl stop sign is the north-south side borders of the town.

Happy -----Willy

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so small that it's posted
Apr 25, 2006 12:01AM PDT

like this "-->." on a map and local surveyors refer to it on a 1x.=pinhead scale

when someone belches in the next county, the wife tells me to take care of the babys wind


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NM [u[is[/u] a third-world country, Mac.
Apr 25, 2006 4:58AM PDT

Mostly, industrialized countries drive on right; ex-colonial others drive on left. In NM we drive on ... the dry side!

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so small, that if.......
Apr 25, 2006 5:41AM PDT

you blink you miss it and have to do a U-turnHappy

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(NT) (NT) The only person the lawyer could sue was him(her)self
Apr 25, 2006 6:06AM PDT
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No joking here but
Apr 25, 2006 8:07AM PDT

the town I grew up in in, Clayton Wisconsin Pop 306 when we moved in 425 when we moved out 6 years later, had a bar inside was the bar and bowling alley all of 4 lanes. The school was K-12 and had about 100 students

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Wow. After reading about all these small towns..
Apr 25, 2006 8:45AM PDT

It makes my small town seem like a huge metropolis. And my town is small. was Grin

George

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My town: We have no traffic lights
Apr 25, 2006 9:05AM PDT

We used to have a blinking yellow light at the main intersection, but everyone got confused, so they removed it. Happy

If we have to wait for more than 2 vehicles (usually large trucks with gun racks and Bush bumper stickers Wink) to pass at a stop sign, the common expression is, "Who opened the gates and let all these @#!*'s out!?!"

Where I lived as a youngster there was a pop. of around 350. My Dad was Mayor for a couple terms and got the city water and sewer system put in place. Where I live now, which is only 45 miles away from my hometown, we have around 2900 residents. It is the County seat of the second largest county (geographically) in Oregon, but smallest in total population (around 6000).

There ain't alot of us here, but we got alot of room to move around in. We like it that way. Grin

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