July 10, 200719 yr Let's see if I qualify............. 1. I lived in a town with "no" stoplight. 2. I grew up using an outhouse. 3. I thought "everyone" had put peanuts in their bottle of "pop". 4. I remember buying bologna in a hunk. 5. Entertainment for us was smashing hedgehogs in the middle of the road. 6. We "didn't" have a key to lock our house. 7. We used magazine and newspapers for ...let's say we used them for more than just reading:D 8. We played in the creek behind our house and thought it just didn't get much better than that...and truly...it didn't. 9. We were told what to do by all the neighbors and our parents didn't have a problem with it. Maybe if we still felt like that our kids wouldn't be in such trouble. Drum roll............................. 10. I remember wishing I didn't live in this little horse town and just knowing that there was more out there somewhere and I was going to do my darnest to find it. Well I did find it and ya know what..... there wasn't a darn thing wrong with that little horse town after all. 1. In Mt. Olivet there is a flashing red light in the middle of the city. 2. We had a outhouse. 3. I didn't have peanuts in pop all the time but every once in a while I would. 4. Bologna in a hunk while workin' on the farm. 5. Don't recall smashing hedgehogs. 6. We didn't need a key to lock our house we had a watchdog, and if he don't know you, oh buddy are you in for it. 7. Same here, wasn't comforatable. 8. I agree. 9. Agree. 10. Same here I moved to Indianapolis for about 2 yrs.(86-88), coming back to Mt. Olivet was the best site I've seen since coming back.
July 10, 200719 yr Growing up in a town with no stop light until the 1980s. Growing up in a town with only one school - K-12 When you give directions, you use people's homes as points of references and not street names or numbers You shop at a grocery store where the teenagers carry your groceries to the car. The mayor of your town has another full-time job. July 4th celebrations still have dunking booths, cake walks, and a tractor pull. Your police department has a roadkill list for people to pick up deer hit by vehicles When a prominant citizen dies, you can't get within a block of the hospital because of the crowd Teenagers congregate around the town square on a Friday or Saturday night Growing up, you knew your job around Labor Day involved "laying down tobacco sticks" Helping grandma shuck corn and snap beans before dinner The sound of a dinner bell means it's noon, time to eat, and time to leave the field You have dogs and cats that live outside and co-exist Going to town to shop and pay bills is an event, usually predicated by bad weather You have a truck you never wash. Ever. Your mother or grandmother has a hand fan in her bible You've cut yours and your girlfriend's initials into a tree All of the above is the same for me. Except for the dinner bell, we had a noon whistle in M.O that sounded it could be heard by most of the county.
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