Old roads, old dogs, old folks, and old ways have a lot to offer in this sped up world we live in. This is how you know you are from a small town.

1. When people ask you where you’re from you just say the largest city that is close to you since you don’t want to spend five minutes explaining where it actually is.

2. You graduated from high school with the same people that you played four square with in kindergarten. You know everything about them and their family has become your family.

3. Drivers education classes were sort of a joke since you could barely find somewhere to parallel park in your town. Thankfully, this made the drivers tests a little bit easier even though most of us somehow managed to fail our first time around.

4. Your teacher’s taught all of your siblings in school and often call you by their name. If you’re lucky, they might have taught your parents too.

5. Walking around Walmart, driving around on dirt roads, and hanging out in a parking lot was a perfectly acceptable form of entertainment.

6. It was very obvious when harvest time and hunting season were in full swing.

7. If you didn’t listen to country music, you were considered an outcast. Johnny Cash, Alan Jackson, and Tim McGraw are hard to beat.

8. It wasn’t weird to be involved with everything and anything in high school. People were playing sports, performing in plays, and playing the clarinet all at once.

9. Dating in high school was weird because you knew all of their exes and you were all friends with one another.

10. Leaving the house for errands becomes a long ordeal because you see at least five people you know. Every. Single. Time. Let’s face it, it’d be rude not to stop and have a twenty-minute conversation with them.

11. On that note, you pretty much know what everybody drives so you are usually waving like a crazy person.

12. The only traffic jams in the country are caused by slow moving tractors. So when you drive through the cities you experience a large amount of road rage.

13. Your closest Target is at least 30 minutes away. This is a tragedy.

14. Friday nights were usually spent in a garage, barn, or a football field. These beat any other type of gatherings.

15. You wouldn’t trade growing up in a small town for anything in the world. Your community has become your family and support system. They are your roots and that will always be your home.