You know you live in a small, Southern town if…
By Staff
Michelle Blaylock, Mom's Corner
This past weekend my family and I were able to enjoy Depot Days. That started me thinking about the stuff small Southern towns and their residents sometimes have in common. Everyone has heard of the "You might be a Redneck if. ." This is "You might live in a small Southern town if. . ."
You might live in a small Southern town if you dress up to go out and rent videos.
You might live in a small Southern town if a local gas station also doubles as the barbershop, video rental store, restaurant and grocery store.
You might live in a small Southern town if every Friday you go to a high school football game whether or not you have a relative playing.
You might live in a small Southern town if the newspaper printed a "congratulations to you and your fiance" before you proposed to you girlfriend.
You might live in a small Southern town if your mother called your place of employment and grounded you, before you even left to go to the party you had lied about.
You might live in a small Southern town if the police don't use street names to find homes; they just say it's where so and so used to live.
You might live in a small Southern town if everyone knows you're pregnant before your husband.
You might live in a small Southern town if police don't have to use license numbers to give you a ticket.
You might live in a small Southern town if your parents call the local farmer and make arrangements for the kids to "steal" pumpkins, cause they're bored at Halloween.
You might live in a small Southern town if a bout of flu in one family shuts down half the town.
You might live in a small Southern town if the dog catcher doesn't take the dogs to the dog pound; she just returns them to their owner.
You might live in a small Southern town if going grocery shopping is a date night for you and your spouse.
You might live in a small Southern town if people sit in cars in the middle of the road to say, "Hey."
You might live in a small Southern town if you discover after several months of dating, your date is a distant cousin.
You might live in a small Southern town if confidentiality means you don't print it in the local newspaper.
You might live in a small Southern town if you can't gossip about anyone because everyone is related to everyone else in someway or another.
You might live in a small Southern town if you can read all of this and not take offense, because we love a good laugh and can enjoy laughing at ourselves!
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