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

[ghuns]

Anyone else ever been behind an Amish buggy at a bank or a McDonald's drive through?

 

[glank09]

Anyone else ever been behind an Amish buggy at a bank or a McDonald's drive through?

No, but one time at a small busy gas station I had to wait for one to get gas...seriously! Must have been a gas can inside the buggy.

 

[ghuns]

No, but one time at a small busy gas station I had to wait for one to get gas...seriously! Must have been a gas can inside the buggy.

Yep. Seems like it happens to me every time I go to fill up my ethanol free gas cans at Martin's in Nappanee.

 

[Karl-just-Karl]

When everyone knows who the local meth head and dealer is, everyone knows the names of the thieves. Then maybe after 15 years they finally die or end up in jail they get replaced immediately by someone else.

I know it says N. Central but it sounds like you've lived in Butler!

 

[DragonGunner]

I know it says N. Central but it sounds like you've lived in Butler!

Bought a Husky pup there back 30 years ago. I’m in Wabash Co. But every small town about the same everywhere. Got the good and the bad.

 

[n9tkf]

Turn right by the green tractor(which is now rusty) stay to the left at the fork and then by Joe's place take a right at the maple tree. It is the first place past the stick in the mud. Just before the crick.

 

[ditcherman]

Turn right by the green tractor(which is now rusty) stay to the left at the fork and then by Joe's place take a right at the maple tree. It is the first place past the stick in the mud. Just before the crick.

My grandpa - “you remember where the red barn used to be? If you went that far you went too far.”
Also my grandpa - “do you remember when there was a dairy farm where the Sears at Castleton is now?”

I guess everyplace used to be the country.

 

[Karl-just-Karl]

I guess everyplace used to be the country.

Not until someone comes along to claim they, "...used to hunt rabbits in that field!"

Some others I always appreciate is, "There wasn't any stop lights from...." and, "We used to drive through there in the middle of the night pushing 100 and there wasn't anyone around".

 

[Karl-just-Karl]

You know you're from a small town when you stop at your local greasy spoon burger establishment and there's some guy inside that appears to be eating crayons?

 

[Hoosier Carry]

You live in a small town when Dollar General can’t find a big enough plot to build store.

 

[Creedmoor]

You live in a small town when your neighbor buys his wifes engagement ring, at the nearby Harley Davidson Dealer.

 

[rhamersley]

You live in a small town when Dollar General can’t find a big enough plot to build store.

 

[Frosty]

My grandpa - “you remember where the red barn used to be? If you went that far you went too far.”
Also my grandpa - “do you remember when there was a dairy farm where the Sears at Castleton is now?”

I guess everyplace used to be the country.

I’ve caught myself saying things like “I remember when that Walmart was just a corn field” or “town used to stop 3/4 of a mile west of where it does now “

 

[MRockwell]

My grandpa - “you remember where the red barn used to be? If you went that far you went too far.”
Also my grandpa - “do you remember when there was a dairy farm where the Sears at Castleton is now?”

I guess everyplace used to be the country.

I remember when there was a heliport round about where the Carmel Lowe's sits today.

I've been catching myself lately saying "where Midway used to be". You might remember that place.

 

[ditcherman]

I remember when there was a heliport round about where the Carmel Lowe's sits today.

I've been catching myself lately saying "where Midway used to be". You might remember that place.

Remember Midway just a little.
When Sheridan John Deere, Bookers, didn't have parts, we'd have to go to Fishers and man that was a haul! You turned left at the ugly yellow heliport and you weren't halfway there yet, forever down this little narrow hilly road called 146th.
I thought it was where the Arby's and McDonald's are now?
The worlds a lot smaller place now.

Man, I just turned this into every single family dinner conversation of my family.

 

[DCR]

Some others I always appreciate is, "There wasn't any stop lights from...." and, "We used to drive through there in the middle of the night pushing 100 and there wasn't anyone around".

That was 38th and Lafayette Rd around 1965

 

[bwframe]

When your neighbor calls up, telling you about his daughter hitting a deer just up the road. Then asks if you want it.

 

[Frosty]

That was 38th and Lafayette Rd around 1965

I remember walking from Sherman to Michigan and not being able to see the sun because of all the trees around 1700 something or other. I don’t remember the exact date, I’ve slept since then…

 

[Tactically Fat]

Anyone else ever been behind an Amish buggy at a bank or a McDonald's drive through?

Berne area, eh?

 

[Creedmoor]

I remember when Maryland was Conservative and Karen Free.