Monday Meanderings - 4.18.2016

I was looking up some air fares the other evening, but I didn't find any as good as this one:

Yes. That's $9.78 for the fare from Fort Worth to Austin.  And was no baggage fee. Still, flying was expensive. Consider the return trip, by rail.

Since I currently live in one of the fastest growing areas in the country, surrounded by some 2 million fellow Austinites, those lists that float by on the Internet that say, "You know you are from a small town when..." typically catch my eye. Here's a combination of a few that I've seen lately.

• You might be from a small town if...
• You know what 4H, FHA and FFA is, and more than likely you were a member.
• You've been to a party in a pasture, barn or gravel pit.
• You dated a friend's ex-girlfriend/boyfriend  and thought it was normal.
• Your teachers remembered when they taught  your parents, let alone your older brothers and sisters.
• You recognized every car in town.
• Local gas stations sold live bait.
• You called the wrong number and you knew the person who answered, and they knew the number of the person you wanted to call.
• You could name every person in your graduating class. Actually, you knew everybody in your high school. And their families.
• You never carried a key for your house because it was always unlocked.
• You charged things at businesses without a credit card (and the clerk knew who to charge it to without asking for your name).
• Store owners left their doors unlocked with a sign that said “gone to the bank, be right back.”
• It was cool to hang out with or date someone from a neighboring school, except during football season when they were considered enemies.
• Everybody knew where you went to church.
• Your entire town shut down every Friday night for the local football game.
• You shopped at a Piggly-Wiggly.
• The only traffic jams your town ever experienced was when a house mover drove through town.
• Your parents purchased live chickens for the dinner table.
• You relate all too well to the show Friday Night Lights.
• There was only one barbershop in town, and only two beauty shops.
• You went to elementary, junior high and high school with the same people.
• If a new boy/girl moved to town, there was a stampede to date him/her.
• You and your friends just drove a continuous loop through town from the drive-in to the Dairy Queen because after the movie, there wasn't anything else to do.

Any thing you would add to the list?