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Waiting for Hachiko |
All good stories and restores faith in people. 美しい犬 | |||
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You might live in a small town, when you stop at one place, ask for a person, get told where they are, and when you arrive, 5 minutes later, that person is already waiting for you. Interesting experience 25 years ago in Maine. Of course I was born/came from a large metro area, so anything under 500K in population is a small town to me. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand "He gains votes ever and anew by taking money from everybody and giving it to a few, while explaining that every penny was extracted from the few to be giving to the many." Ogden Nash from his poem - The Politician | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
They did. The lights are Mosey and Don't Mosey. And the yellow flashing light reads Amble On. | |||
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Lost |
My friend grew up in a small town on the Japan Sea side of the main island of Honshu. He remembers when the very first traffic light went up. It was a major city event. I believe people brought chairs and spent the better part of the first day watching the light change colors. | |||
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Raised in a small town in upstate NY, there were 520 kids in my school when I graduated (K-12), my class was 29, my younger brother graduated with the biggest class ever at 54, the class after my youngest brother was the smallest at 14 | |||
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Serenity now! |
Growing up in a small town in North Dakota, when taking my driving test, the instructor couldn't find two cars for me to parallel park between. His solution? Just pretend there's a car *there* and *there*. Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice. ʘ ͜ʖ ʘ | |||
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That's awesome 
...let him who has no sword sell his robe and buy one. Luke 22:35-36 NAV "Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves." Matthew 10:16 NASV | |||
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| Conveniently located directly above the center of the Earth  |
...story from the last 'small town' I moved near: One day I was calling someone at their private number. Informed I had misdialed after asking by first name for him; the party asked if I were trying to call 'first+last name' of the party..... I said 'yes'; they said they knew him & gave me the RIGHT private number!!!! **************~~~~~~~~~~ "I've been on this rock too long to bother with these liars any more." ~SIGforum advisor~ "When the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, then change will come."~~sigmonkey | |||
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| Saluki |
While visiting the BIL his boys mentioned they were heading to the store and did I need anything. I didn't, but was surprised about the store. BIL tells me the jokers referred to the pop machine at the grain elevator as the store. The only thing in town for sale was in that pop machine. ----------The weather is here I wish you were beautiful---------- | |||
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| It's pronounced just the way it's spelled |
My parents grew up in a farm community with a "town" so small that when we went to a family funeral my wife realized I was related to everyone buried in the cemetery. I grew up in a small town, there were only 138 in my high school graduating class. My wife always wanted to live in a small town, since she hadn't ever lived in one. I thought she was crazy, but we now live in a town of about 5000, with another town of about the same size on the other side of the mountain. A lot of those residents are snowbirds. In the summer, it's like a post apocalyptic movie set. It's my favorite time of the year and I love it here. | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
At the Southern end of Highway 101 at Port Orford OR, they hung a traffic light around eight or nine years back. My pal Dick and I often hang out watching the traffic coming up from the next state down getting all confused by it. Y'see, sometimes it's on, and then it isn't. Watching strangers slow down, or just drive on looking puzzled, can bring a bit of amusement to an otherwise fairly humdrum day watching the ocean doing it's thing from Battle Rock parking lot. tac | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
My mom grew up in Mayo Fl, pop in 2010 was 1237. They have one red light, it's also the county seat. Everyone knows everyone. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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| Don't burn the day away |
My town is about 6500 people, 2 lights and a Dunkin Donuts. Lots of open space, good people and schools. ---------------------------------------- Cause the wine taste good and the dance is feeling fine fine fine | |||
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34" Scale 5-String |
Would you mind saying what town this is? I noticed you’re listed as being from middle TN, and that sounds a lot like McEwen, my family’s home place. If you don’t want to say publicly, would you shoot me an email? Sorry for the long quote, but it’s nearly impossible to edit on my tiny iPhone screen with my fat fingers... _____________________________ Bill R. North Alabama | |||
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The town I grew up in was not incorporated. Population would have been less then 200. There were 3 churches, 2 cotton gins, a grain elevator, post office, 2 small mom & pop stores and half dozen houses (everybody else lived in the country). There were 21 in my senior class. Nobody ever locked their house and everybody had a gunrack in the back window of their pickup. _________ Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford | |||
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Dies Irae |
I live nine miles outside the proverbial "one traffic light" town. The town itself is ~5K population. The closest mall is a 100 mile round-trip. It's a place where they turn on gas pumps when they recognize you. The City and American Legion put flags for 1/4 mile out on each major road (about 100 yards between flags) every Veteran's/Memorial Day/Fourth Of July. And we still have a Nativity scene (shh!). The tallest structure is a grain elevator. | |||
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| Cruising the Highway to Hell  |
I live a few miles outside a one stop sign town. Not sure about the population in town, but the entire zip code is listed at about 4,490 people. I can't see another house from mine and far enough off the beaten path I don't hear traffic. The bad news is that it's about a 40 minute drive to get to the grocery store. “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan Retired old fart | |||
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Wickenburg is a relatively small town (~6,000). Folks are very friendly, so much so that you can be stuck in line at the store while the person checking out "chats" with the cashier, long after the transaction is complete. You learn patience. Driving, too, patience is required. It is a kind of nice tempo. | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
When I was a Forest Service seasonal in Utah, my mailing address was an unincorporated community called Hanna. There was a bar (yep, in rural Utah), a general store, and a post office. The post office was a wooden...shed, with white clapboard siding that matched the house of the postmaster, whose front yard the P.O. sat in. I feel bad that I can’t remember her name. She was a widow and as nice a person as you could ever hope to meet. When you needed to get into the post office, you knocked on her door and she would come out and open it up for you. If you were gone for a couple weeks on a fire and got back into town on Sunday evening, you could knock on her door. My roommate and I shared a house at the Administrative Site. One local rancher used to bring us fresh milk in a wide-mouth, one gallon glass jar. There would be about 4” of cream floating on the top. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
We’re very metropolitan here in Jerkwater. Got a McDonalds AND a Sonic. And even a Subway. A flashing yellow light and two flashing red lights. | |||
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