Absolutely!!! Or asking for someone’s family name (last name) we have to know who belongs to who y’all. And not to mention if their family is any count.
@Matthew Cafaro You must live in the big city. Where I grew up -- in various small towns in Texas, we didn't have liquor stores, much less those that delivered! 😆 Even the town I went to college was dry until *after* I graduated in 1992. Closest place to buy beer was a 20 min drive one way!
So true! Maps of cell signals are all around where my grandparents lived but no signal on their property. To get a signal you have to drive to a church a 1/4 mile away and its about 90 ft higher in elevation.
@@downychick ain't that the truth. Same here. My sister lives in Florida for quite some time now. She's in the medical field, when this whole virus thing just started asked if I was distancing where I'm at. Are you kidding ?? Civilization is 45 min away. Closest neighbor is 20 acres away. Yeah we were distancing before it became the rage. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I moved to a small town in east Tennessee five years ago. I still remember the day "might could" came out of my mouth for the first time. I actually stopped in mid-sentence and laughed. Southern is contagious y'all!
One time my mama was laughing at a news interview of someone from a small town saying if folks didn't hang out in the town square, then they'd hang out in the Walmart parking lot. She was laughing at how big a deal they were making having a Walmart. Then she realized our town didn't have a Walmart OR a town square! X-D
I once lived (not grew up in) a small town in NC. The Walmart was the place to be after 10pm🤦🏻♂️ It was also first time I saw people with open carry 🔫
omg wow that's crazy bc Walmart prefers opening in small towns. They whole reason why they were created was so that small towns would have a place to shop.
For those of you who don't know this is a thing... it is. And 3 DG's? I lived in a town where we had to drive to the next town to shop there and they only had one.
The joke is that they'll put as many DGs as they can anywhere. Hence 3 in a town so small there is no school or library. Obviously many small towns don't even have one, but it's funny because it's grounded in truth.
The town I grew up in had a post office, a little grocery store (not part of a chain, just a local store run by some people who lived there), a lumber yard, and a few other businesses. Population was 3100. No dollar general, one stop sign (the road that turned off the main 'highway' (2-lane) and went to the grocery store), and that's about it. The local school was two towns away, and catered to the four small towns in the area. :)
Got to have the bonding moment where we find out we know someone in common and then we laugh and drink all night long and kind of hang with our small town brothers and sisters! I'm having flashbacks of college watching this. Thanks for the memery retrieval team!
I love your videos, especially when you explain Americas to non-Americans like we are some exotic undiscovered with weird and strange customs. Half the time I watch your videos I am thinking, "Well of course that's how its done.... is it really so strange to people who don't live here?"
@@avacurtis2729 we're serious. There are still folks without cell phone reception, let alone internet provider! The only businesses in my town are the church and fire station. We have no street lights or even stop signs. All the streets are gravel. The only cell provider with a signal is Verizon.
@@avacurtis2729 I once lived in a town where my moving in increased the population significantly. Not only did the town have no traffic lights, it also had no stop signs because it had no turns. It was 1 road. Most people who have been to that place didn't even know they were there. There were only two local businesses, both of which were antique shops. No fast food, no restaurants, no grocery stores, no church.
LOL, MY town was so small you didn't need addresses or directions, you just said, Jim Bob Hicks needs (police, ambulance whatever). Not even kidding, my aunt sent my mom a present and got the address completely wrong. The post office didn't even notice, all they saw was my mom's name on the package and delivered it.
Not to down play what OP said. But i live in Houston Tx and got a job at the post office. The guy training me was sorting his mail so fast i asked how he could read the addresses that quick. He started laughing and said he had been on that route for 15 years - he sorted mail by the name. I was floored.
My cousin ended up naming the road he lives on. Everywhere was asking for a street address and since his road didn't have mail delivery or street addresses he didn't have one, he gets his mail from a PO Box. Not having a "street address" was becoming an issue for legal documents. He ended up just made up a number and saying he lived at the random number he made up on "Cemetery Road", he called it that cause there's a cemetery on it. Ten years later his road is officially Cemetery Road and that's officially his address.
@@lilykep I completely get that. The town of North Ft Myers Florida finally named the dirt road that my grandparents lived on "Whitehead Road". "Whitehead" was their last name. They did have a mailbox, but it was Route so - and - so, Box so - and - so. The garbage trucks and ambulances wouldn't come to the house because the bridge over the canal was made of old wood and railroad ties. They said that the big vehicles would fall in. Papa managed to get his dump trucks loaded with limerock over it though. Oh! And we had a cattle guard at the beginning of the road. lol 😆 Boy! I sure do miss it! My childhood was great!
oooh look at you all fancy shmancy with your post office that delivers to houses. My town was too small for that, you had to have a PO box and come get it yourself. ( Am I doing it right?)
The smallest town I lived in was in Alabama. The place had one store, one school, one post office, and I think one restaurant. We had to drive 45 minutes the other direction to buy anything. When we started meeting the other people in town, they asked where we lived. It was actually outside of town with no names for the street. So, someone asked if we lived where the old mill used to be. I said “ Tell me where the old mill used to be and I’ll tell you if that’s it.” lol
Somebody could really throw a monkey wrench into their standoff and tell them that there needs to be a judge’s decision. Texting directions would have to include landmarks of importance such as where the old barn used to be, go over the second hill from the four way stop, and turn by the two oak trees.
LOL this really is so true! I work in a city, but I live in the sticks and always have. When I went to my first HR appointment one of the ladies asked me where I was from so I told her - a backwoods town 30 minutes from a grocery, with no stop light, one locally owned gas station and a dollar store. She was like...."That sounds like a great place TO BE FROM...." LOL I about died.
How about the town's so small it's only three dirt streets. Not even a dollar general. You have a burger grill cafe, a post office drop box and the local mechanic.
Well, my mailbox was 3 miles away. And I’m with Faith. A mechanic? We had to go about 10 miles. If our car could get there😩. The absolute worst year of my life. Off grid is nothing like it looks like on tv. It SUCKS. I still have trauma. And the phone reception🤣
The Wal-Mart in the next town over closed before 11pm, and you had to buy your beer after noon, and never on a Sunday! This was before we even had dollar general, which literally just started selling beer last week!
I may be in the midwest instead of the south but we are considered a "village" surrounded by cornfields. Zero stoplights, no police, a post office, a pizza place, a bar hanging on by a thread, and our general store closed for business. We also have the tall grainery towers along side the railroad tracks and the old metal water tower "uptown".
Yeah, I grew up in a town like that. Had a bank, one gas station, feed mill, one school K-12, a park and 4 churches. Grocery store closed for years. When I left it had 350 people.
@@ginakeith5520 Four churches for 350 people is impressive though! And a K-12 school. My town had 500 people. Catholic Church that 90 percent of the town went to, a non-denominational church and the Catholic School that was K-6. If you wanted public grade school, or once you graduated from the Catholic school you had to go to the next town over, 6 miles away. Which in Minnesota is nothing. I know of places way up north where the kids are on the bus for almost two hours each way to go to school.
You just described where I grew up to the letter. If you said anything about the old school converted to apartments, the summertime siren at 6, Noon, and 6, or the “pink snow” I would swear you were talking about my old stomping grounds. By any chance is that bar called “The Shamrock?”
You must be talking about Tazewell, VA....haha. When I moved here from large city never thought I would get excited over Dollar Generals and Dollar Trees. 😪
@@patriciabanks8314 lol I used to live a bit east of you outside Pearisburg in a little spot in the road called Pembroke. One fourth the size of Tazewell haha. Loved living there.
Lived in a small town of 500 for many years. Teens in that school district have to ask their parents before dating anyone just to make sure that that they aren't related!
@@VRDennis my mother-in-law grew up in Southern California and her high school class alone was 1,200 kids. Then after graduation she moved to Minnesota and ended up living in a town where the entire population was only 790. I found that rather funny that there were more people in her graduating class than people in her new town.
I used to live in a town so small that the USPS didn't even deliver the mail. The listings for the town took up less than a page and a half in the phone directory.
I remember learning how to drive in our ONE streetlight city...so far in the north, dollar general isn't even interested. There are twelve churches though...where the men are men and the sheep are nervous...
@@nolgroth Two ranchers overheard talking in an Montana bar; "How's your love life?", askes the first one. Second one replies after a sip of beer; "Not Baaaaaaaaaad" 😁 To all Montana ranchers, sorry but I couldn't resist.
“I think I’ve heard of that.” “...No you haven’t” I’ve had that exact same conversation sooo many times with people when I tell them where I’m from. 🤣🤣
Schulter Ok. No stop lights, no blinky lights, just stop signs. We do have a school, Pre-K through 12, averages about 250 students total. Also, no Dollar Generals or grocery stores or gas stations. It's Oklahoma through so 3 churches and a bar (that real it only serves beer but no food). May have trick or treat'd there as a child and recieved a package of peanuts...
I once lived in a small town where the only store around for 45 mins was a small corner store gas station. It only had two pumps that only worked half the time. They used to have a school surprisingly but it was shut down and now all children were sent to the school in the county over. We also lived on the border of another state so half the students lived across state lines. We had one small diner called The Lyon's Den. And let me tell you, the looks on the faces of my mom's work buddies when I (a 12 year old at the time) said my favorite diner was called "The Lyon's Den" was hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
I live ur life lol Middle TN officially but on border of AL n life happens in AL Unless ur a kid having to be bussed an hr to school one way (up one side of mtn n down another)-so stupid
I just came back from my own small town. I'm glad to be back in a city. I was up there for a funeral and halfway though a conversation with one of my cousins, another cousin's wife came running in with a bottle of vodka to hide it from the preacher.
kristen chastain wait ! You had a mall ? Dang , that’s high city living right there ! Our little town has grown a little, we have a small strip mall at the crossroads but only a couple of businesses in it now. One step forward, two steps back.
I find it funny they made the joke about buying beer in small towns, but in Atlanta (technically the whole state of Georgia I think) you still can’t buy beer on Sunday before 1:00 pm. 🤔
I'm from Australia (north)but I watch this channel becuase I find it so relatable (90% of the time) when I went to go visit my nanna her town didn't have any trafic lights and the last time it was a popular town was 150 years ago in the gold rush.
I can actually relate to the one traffic light claim. We also have one dollar general and one library, too. Geez, I guess my small town is just like the Jeffersons----we're movin' on up.
Wow, finally a worthy contender. Most of the people here live in metropolises compared to the smallest place I lived. One street also. But no churches and only two homes. And only two stores; both antique stores. 1 mailbox for the whole town, shared by the population of 2 people.
Just go down the road a couple miles and turn left by the falling down barn. No not that falling down barn, the other falling down barn. The Dollar General is between the cornfield and soybeans.
I have lived my whole life in metro Atlanta, and I love my hometown ATL, but I cannot WAIT to move to a small town closer to the mountains of north Georgia.
The small town my parents were from in Alabama, Collinsville, only had one good place for a cell signal. The hill behind the nursing home. My cousins would tell me they had to drive up there to call me!
Im from a small town in NC where we still have 1 stop light. And despite having a college..up until about 20 years ago we only had gas stations,a few local restaurants, and a dry cleaner. Now we have fast food, CVS, and Dollar General AND Dollar Tree!! The college has police but not the town. Which is good for my brother who gets all the off duty gigs.
I remember seeing this substitute I had one time in Chuck E Cheese (the only time I ever went, because it was like 45 minutes away) My only thought was how weird it was that he was teaching in a Chuck E Cheese. He was actually there with his son haha
This is hilarious! My husband actually comes from a small town (although we live in the Northeast) and basically, you have to triangulate your location by explaining like two or three other places and then say "yeah it's halfway between this place & this place." They have one Price Chopper, one Dollar General, a couple gas stations, one pizza place & fewer than 50,000 people. I get internet from my in-laws at their house but I don't get phone reception (to get calls or texts) until we drive for about 10 minutes down into town because they're on a mountain range about thousand feet above sea level. They still have to use a landline for phone calls even though they have cell phones too.
I went to hoover high school and I know for a fact there are WAY more baptist churches in Alabama than students who went to hoover High (3000 thousand kids)
as a son of a Baptist minister from Alabama I agree. Alabama is the Baptist center of the universe. Texas thinks they are but I live in Texas and they ain't got nuthin' over Alabama on this.
Lol, I love the dramatization. I have these conversations quite frequently with other small town southern folks. When I met someone from a small town that knew what "stumphole" was and proceeded to explain in detail what it was, I knew that I met my match lol.
I witnessed something very similar to this. In upstate New York, the girl from Wells won with “all we had was a family diner that shut down”, next in line was the girl from Caroga with “We just got our first dollar general”
There are so many Dollar Generals in my neck of the woods, I've seen them in places where I though "they'll get no business this far out," and yet they do!
Back in my home town when you had a wedding you had two receptions... one, everybody came to, often at the church social hall. And then the other one which the preacher DIDN'T go to where to booze and hootch came out. Usually at a lodge hall or the country club. The preacher knew about it, but it was never mentioned. Baptists never drink when the preacher is there.
"Asserting dominance", by saying how much of a nomad you are...over here in Ireland, local Irish news reporters went in search of the most remote, off the grind, isolated person that they could find, to do a story on. They found an old man, that never married, living in a back field of some farm, in an old house without running water, electricity, or a phone/Internet lines. Yes, Ireland is a first world country, had an average industrial income before the 2008 crash of €60,000 a year ($92,000 US at the time, I checked) and the pharmaceutical and IT heart of Europe. Microsoft, Apple Computers, Facebook, you name it, with our 12.5% corporate tax rate and an educated English speaking population, you name it, the IT or paracetamol company's European headquarters is probably here... ...yet you still can find really old people, but that old man, I doubt you could call being the most like him dominance. No offence. OK sketch though. Well done. Love, prayers and best regards from the Republic of Ireland. 👍👏🙋♂️😎✝️🙏🇮🇪💚🧡🇺🇲❤💙
@@JPMJPM I also love the tourists btw, they are always really happy on holidays and interesting to talk to. Like guessing their accents, I started years ago trying to guess which state the Americans came from, they are always ok with playing along. ❤💙👍
When the ferries move to a different town, the normal shops close and thrift shops open up. Welcome to Stranraer in Scotland. All my clothes are a quarter of the price.
For real. I do this. 😂 I have the uncontrollable need to say my town had a Sheriff's station, pizza parlor, post office, and two gas stations when I moved there. Whew, I had to say it.
...... grab some trash bags... We can't let anybody from church see the cans. Anytime you get four people together from church, you usually find a "fifth" (of bourbon)🥃
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I always appreciate when there’s a character with no idea what’s going on because I’m just a young confused Canadian trying to piece together how I got here and why it’s so relatable 😅
I lived 20 miles outside a small town in Central Idaho. The town had a general store which served as a post office and gas station. The clincher for my small town stand off was: "Is your town on one side or both sides of the street?"
My Dad was born in a town in Kentucky that doesn't exist anymore. Nebraska is more Southern in mindset than a lot of its neighbors- college football, church, and Spring football are important.
Lol, this is definitely so true! Grew up in (and moved back after my military hitch) Ajax, Louisiana. Even smaller than their examples lol. No grocery stores, not even a dollar general (nearest dollar general is 30 minutes away so you know its truly the middle of nowhere in the South)! Only two churches. No police, and barely cell. And yes, it was a dry area with no alcohol sales, I think they allow low percentage beers now in some cases, but naturally, we don't drink. Google maps can't even find our address, and not only is there no traffic lights, there are only maybe 5 stop signs, none of which are at a four way (or 3 way) stop. Best way to live, I lived and traveled to all 50 states and nearly 30 countries while in the USAF, and chose to come back here. You couldn't pay me enough to live in a city.
Because its the South and we have lots of churches, partly because nearly everybody goes to church, and partly because church splits are a regional sport! There is a spot in Shreveport where you can stand in one place and see four different Baptist churches at the same time! Reminds me of the old joke about the guy that was shipwrecked alone on a desert island, and he gets found like 20 years later, and he is showing off all the things he built, "here is my house, and here is my workshop, and here is the church I built, etc.". The rescuers are like, "wait, what is that church over there?" and he says, "Oh, that's where I used to go to church"!
Here's a metric: You must only have one gas station. With me so far? Mine only had two pumps. And the second one was diesel. Once, I made a weird eco push that recycling was awesome for a school project and grilled people at the general store for statistics on their opinion about recycling. (I don't know, I just wanted an easy project where all I had to do was collect opinions and make a chart.) Turns out, somehow, someone convinced a poor sap at the county office to give us a giant recycling bin. It was there for maybe two years before everyone got bored of that and they stopped bothering to even deliver it anymore. Which is sad, because while it was there, all you had to do was sort your trash and you could wait twice as long to visit a dump. But I guess everyone just went back to burning their trash.
Y'all had a stop sign?!🤨😂 Actually in Tennessee it's more like Schools: 0 Libraries: hahahahaha Dollar Generals: nope, but there's a couple up the road aways Gas stations: 1 Churches: 12
I can beat that. The town I went to school in had 120 residents. No Dollar General, no hospital/clinic/pharmacy, 3 churches, and the mayor was the police chief and a preacher. Iraan, TX!
I come from a little town so far out in the sticks the chickens had to wear diapers so the buzzards didn't mate with em! We lived so far out in the sticks, they had to pipeline us some sunshine! We lived so far out in the sticks, when you made the trip to the grocery store to buy a gallon of Blue Bell Ice Cream, you brought a couple of spoons from home so you could eat it on the way back because it would be totally melted before you got home with it! But the good news is, bring a straw with you and you can drink Blue Bell like a shake once it melts a little!
Don't forget the battle of who's family has been in the small town the longest.
For me it would be me. Because my great grandfather was the first settler in the town my daddy's family is from.
Speegles (Spiegles) were one of five families to receive the first land grants in the northern part of the Alabama Territory.
And do not forget the "Who is related to who" thing too.
Absolutely!!! Or asking for someone’s family name (last name) we have to know who belongs to who y’all. And not to mention if their family is any count.
Whooooohooooo
Now that's what's up 😊😂
Surprised they didn’t use the “My town’s so small, the ‘now entering’ and ‘now leaving’ signs are on the same post.”
David Rabb Gatesville Indiana ?
@David Rabb, Good one😂😂😂
U have a sign?? We have an elderly man who smiles when u leave and nods when u enter.
@@mrobinson256 now that is small!
I know this is meant to be funny but aren’t all “now entering” “now leaving” signs on the same post??
People in the comments really be having a Small Town Off themselves.
Cain't hep it!
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This is the way
I live in the southern hemisphere....
...can’t let nobody from church see these cans...
Almost spewed coffee all over the screen with that one.
When’s the only time two Baptists won't talk to each other? When they see each other in the liquor store.
John Mark Connolly always go fishing with two Baptists. If you’re with only one, he’ll drink all your beer.
Me too! 😂
@@johnmarkconnolly6414 The real Southern Baptists get their liquor delivered. That way they don't run into that situation.
@Matthew Cafaro You must live in the big city. Where I grew up -- in various small towns in Texas, we didn't have liquor stores, much less those that delivered! 😆 Even the town I went to college was dry until *after* I graduated in 1992. Closest place to buy beer was a 20 min drive one way!
Lol this is so true! When he said “we just text them” my automatic thought was “ya’ll have service out there??!”
We need to get in the roof to get signal.
You can only get a Verizon a signal in my town. If you want tv you have to go to Direct TV. Internet is HughesNet, but that's expensive.
@@leticiavega3493 when my neighbor first moved to town, she had to drive to the grain elevator to get a signal with her Sprint phone!
So true! Maps of cell signals are all around where my grandparents lived but no signal on their property. To get a signal you have to drive to a church a 1/4 mile away and its about 90 ft higher in elevation.
@@downychick ain't that the truth. Same here. My sister lives in Florida for quite some time now. She's in the medical field, when this whole virus thing just started asked if I was distancing where I'm at. Are you kidding ??
Civilization is 45 min away. Closest neighbor is 20 acres away. Yeah we were distancing before it became the rage. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
As someone from a small town with no traffic light and the nearest real grocery store 30 minutes away I felt this on a spiritual level.
I know u would've had a gas station convenient store
Same here!
Nearest store 30 to 40 minutes away, dirt drive, No dollar General and NO CVS... Jonathan Creek NC.
@@tstepp71 Recently added dollar general no cvs, building a hotel because we're a railroad town.
@@heidiwren7713 how many ppl live there
Mad respect for using "might could" as an expression. We might ought to have more double modals in our lives.
You can also use that concept in past tense. "Well, I used'ta could."
We might ought to have =Shortened "might oughta"
I moved to a small town in east Tennessee five years ago. I still remember the day "might could" came out of my mouth for the first time. I actually stopped in mid-sentence and laughed. Southern is contagious y'all!
Done already done it. Might coulda sooner, was fixin to, but cut it half in two anyway.
@@superslyfoxx1 Wouldn't that be "might oughta've"?
One time my mama was laughing at a news interview of someone from a small town saying if folks didn't hang out in the town square, then they'd hang out in the Walmart parking lot. She was laughing at how big a deal they were making having a Walmart. Then she realized our town didn't have a Walmart OR a town square! X-D
My closest Wal-Mart is 130 miles one way.
Apparently, my town had a parade when super walmart came. ... I was away at college.
@@justinmil1,
Lucky you. They have to ruin a good cornfield 13 miles from me to build a Walmart.
I once lived (not grew up in) a small town in NC. The Walmart was the place to be after 10pm🤦🏻♂️ It was also first time I saw people with open carry 🔫
omg wow that's crazy bc Walmart prefers opening in small towns. They whole reason why they were created was so that small towns would have a place to shop.
“I think I’ve heard of that”
“No you haven’t”
The amount of times I’ve said those exact words 😂😂
For those of you who don't know this is a thing... it is. And 3 DG's? I lived in a town where we had to drive to the next town to shop there and they only had one.
The joke is that they'll put as many DGs as they can anywhere. Hence 3 in a town so small there is no school or library. Obviously many small towns don't even have one, but it's funny because it's grounded in truth.
MY town doesn't even have a gas station!
@@Michael_Chandler_Keaton yeah. I I think it's also a callback to a previous video where Dollar Generals were growing out of control.
The town I grew up in had a post office, a little grocery store (not part of a chain, just a local store run by some people who lived there), a lumber yard, and a few other businesses. Population was 3100. No dollar general, one stop sign (the road that turned off the main 'highway' (2-lane) and went to the grocery store), and that's about it. The local school was two towns away, and catered to the four small towns in the area. :)
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Got to have the bonding moment where we find out we know someone in common and then we laugh and drink all night long and kind of hang with our small town brothers and sisters! I'm having flashbacks of college watching this. Thanks for the memery retrieval team!
Wolters World
OMG I love your videos
jclafreeman me too
The question always is, “What church did y’all go to?”, because it’s just assumed. And then you name all the people you know there
Well I am early
I love your videos, especially when you explain Americas to non-Americans like we are some exotic undiscovered with weird and strange customs. Half the time I watch your videos I am thinking, "Well of course that's how its done.... is it really so strange to people who don't live here?"
My hometown is so country, the Episcopalians handle snakes.
Okay, now that is freaking hilarious!
This made me laugh!
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bwahahaha!
but then, our Orthodox Mission does foot-washing.
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I know yall are trying to be funny, but this is closer to reality than most people know.
It is more common than they think.
For sure...👍😂
Oh for sure 😂
Exactly
Amen!
We got 1 dollar general, 5 churches, a barbecue stand, a library in a double wide trailer and 0 traffic lights.
My suburb brain can't even tell if these comments are joking or not
My small town in Merit Texas does not have a Dollar General, two school buldings, and the post office covers two blocks.
Ava Curtis some of them are serious. There are some very rural places still.
@@avacurtis2729 we're serious. There are still folks without cell phone reception, let alone internet provider! The only businesses in my town are the church and fire station. We have no street lights or even stop signs. All the streets are gravel. The only cell provider with a signal is Verizon.
@@avacurtis2729 I once lived in a town where my moving in increased the population significantly. Not only did the town have no traffic lights, it also had no stop signs because it had no turns. It was 1 road. Most people who have been to that place didn't even know they were there. There were only two local businesses, both of which were antique shops. No fast food, no restaurants, no grocery stores, no church.
LOL, MY town was so small you didn't need addresses or directions, you just said, Jim Bob Hicks needs (police, ambulance whatever). Not even kidding, my aunt sent my mom a present and got the address completely wrong. The post office didn't even notice, all they saw was my mom's name on the package and delivered it.
I'm from that town, lol
Not to down play what OP said. But i live in Houston Tx and got a job at the post office. The guy training me was sorting his mail so fast i asked how he could read the addresses that quick. He started laughing and said he had been on that route for 15 years - he sorted mail by the name. I was floored.
My cousin ended up naming the road he lives on. Everywhere was asking for a street address and since his road didn't have mail delivery or street addresses he didn't have one, he gets his mail from a PO Box. Not having a "street address" was becoming an issue for legal documents. He ended up just made up a number and saying he lived at the random number he made up on "Cemetery Road", he called it that cause there's a cemetery on it. Ten years later his road is officially Cemetery Road and that's officially his address.
@@lilykep I completely get that. The town of North Ft Myers Florida finally named the dirt road that my grandparents lived on "Whitehead Road". "Whitehead" was their last name. They did have a mailbox, but it was Route so - and - so, Box so - and - so. The garbage trucks and ambulances wouldn't come to the house because the bridge over the canal was made of old wood and railroad ties. They said that the big vehicles would fall in. Papa managed to get his dump trucks loaded with limerock over it though. Oh! And we had a cattle guard at the beginning of the road. lol 😆 Boy! I sure do miss it! My childhood was great!
oooh look at you all fancy shmancy with your post office that delivers to houses. My town was too small for that, you had to have a PO box and come get it yourself. ( Am I doing it right?)
Honestly, I didn't even realize that this is a thing I've done and will probably continue to do lol
My hometown is so small the zip code is a fraction
@DaRebel for real 😳
hey at least you have a zip code!
@@mannfan12 every town has a zip code. It's just that some places share it with 3 other towns...
@@thomasjsanford4229 yeah i know. I was talking about towns having their own zip code. It was implied. Context is important.
@@thomasjsanford4229 My zip code covers 375 square miles
The smallest town I lived in was in Alabama. The place had one store, one school, one post office, and I think one restaurant. We had to drive 45 minutes the other direction to buy anything. When we started meeting the other people in town, they asked where we lived. It was actually outside of town with no names for the street. So, someone asked if we lived where the old mill used to be. I said “ Tell me where the old mill used to be and I’ll tell you if that’s it.” lol
Pittsview
Jasmine Aurora I know where Coffee is. lol
I’ve been wanting to move out toward Brundidge for a while. Stuck up here in Moody for now lol
I live hour and half south of brundidge. Hello my fellow alabamians. XD
Kinston AL?
Somebody could really throw a monkey wrench into their standoff and tell them that there needs to be a judge’s decision. Texting directions would have to include landmarks of importance such as where the old barn used to be, go over the second hill from the four way stop, and turn by the two oak trees.
Turn right where Mr. Johnson grew them good watermelons last summer. Been there done that! Lol
Ken Welch the funny part of it is to give the directions to an out of towner. The look of frustration and bewilderment conveys so much.
@@leert2698 lol I was a delivery driver for years. You'd be amazed at how often the directions were like that!
That tree got back struck by lightning back in 2003 ....
Aw man, my sides hurt from laughing so hard. I understood this completely and when I read this out loud to my city friend she was so confused 🤣
My town was so small that it had a sign that said "Welcome to Smallville" on one side, and "Thanks for visiting" on the other.
😂🤣 I love it!!
Does Clark Kent live there?
LOL this really is so true! I work in a city, but I live in the sticks and always have. When I went to my first HR appointment one of the ladies asked me where I was from so I told her - a backwoods town 30 minutes from a grocery, with no stop light, one locally owned gas station and a dollar store. She was like...."That sounds like a great place TO BE FROM...." LOL I about died.
Reminds me of watching homeschooled kids and small town kids do a weird dance in college over who had the smallest graduating class.
24 😁
8 people total!
One year, my school's graduating class was 1. Seriously. Yes, there was a graduation ceremony, and yes, he had to give a speech.
@@angelawagner3181 Did he listen to his speech too?
19, it was the largest in the school’s history.
How about the town's so small it's only three dirt streets. Not even a dollar general. You have a burger grill cafe, a post office drop box and the local mechanic.
You got a mechanic?? Lucky
😆
We didn’t need a mechanic. We didn’t have cars. Our town sign said “welcome” on both sides.
Our post office was located in the general store. The general store was where all the farmers met in the morning for coffee.
If you don’t have a dollar general, then that must not be the south.
Well, my mailbox was 3 miles away. And I’m with Faith. A mechanic? We had to go about 10 miles. If our car could get there😩. The absolute worst year of my life. Off grid is nothing like it looks like on tv. It SUCKS. I still have trauma. And the phone reception🤣
2 counties over before 11pm.
😂😂😂
And NOT on Sunday! ...... Well, unless you go to the boat dock and ask quietly for a six pack of baloney sandwiches. 🤫😉😉🙃
We can get beer here in NC after 10 unless an abc store
The Wal-Mart in the next town over closed before 11pm, and you had to buy your beer after noon, and never on a Sunday! This was before we even had dollar general, which literally just started selling beer last week!
No traffic light, a feed store, two c-stores, one DG, and a small, locally owned grocery. However 2-A state football champs. Priorities, ya know!
Wait... the high school is actually in your town? We have to travel 6 miles out of our town in order to go to the public school.
Queen Of Putrescence I get it - but we lived 10 miles from town! :-) Not fun when kiddo had to be at 6 am football practice!
Damn straight!
We have a round a bout instead of a traffic light 😂 I’m serious lol
Wait you have a running school. In your town dang a. C store dang. I have to drive in a car 45 minutes to get to school
Easiest way to find a Southern Baptist at the state fair. Holler, "Why hello Pastor!" and see who tries to hide the beer they are drinking.
LOL This reminds me of Blaisville GA. We were a dry county until 10 years ago. We thought we hit the big time when Wal-Mart moved into town
Oh, if you have Walmart, you are a city!
@@ghostlyrose8946 I know we hit the big time!
Oh, no. I hear when a Walmart rolls into a little town... it's the end of the little town. You have my condolences.
Walmart = city
I live in tennessee and were thirty minutes to the closest walmart but an hour to the one we go to
I come from a little town on the outskirts of a Wal-Mart.
😂
Hahahaha hahahaha 😆 that was funny!! 👍👍
Ya'll have a walmart?!
@@TUBEalicious No, he’s saying the Walmart has a town
I may be in the midwest instead of the south but we are considered a "village" surrounded by cornfields. Zero stoplights, no police, a post office, a pizza place, a bar hanging on by a thread, and our general store closed for business. We also have the tall grainery towers along side the railroad tracks and the old metal water tower "uptown".
In Minnesota. The only grocery store in town was knocked down several years ago.
Yeah, I grew up in a town like that. Had a bank, one gas station, feed mill, one school K-12, a park and 4 churches. Grocery store closed for years. When I left it had 350 people.
@@ginakeith5520 Four churches for 350 people is impressive though! And a K-12 school. My town had 500 people. Catholic Church that 90 percent of the town went to, a non-denominational church and the Catholic School that was K-6. If you wanted public grade school, or once you graduated from the Catholic school you had to go to the next town over, 6 miles away. Which in Minnesota is nothing. I know of places way up north where the kids are on the bus for almost two hours each way to go to school.
A pizza place in and a bar my town doesn't have that
You just described where I grew up to the letter. If you said anything about the old school converted to apartments, the summertime siren at 6, Noon, and 6, or the “pink snow” I would swear you were talking about my old stomping grounds.
By any chance is that bar called “The Shamrock?”
A town so small the only thing there is a church, a post office, and an ice machine 😆
As a person from a town of 300-400 people in the middle of nowhere Virginia i can feel this in my soul.
I think I used to live there! lol
Where in Virginia? Cuz Cumberland county has small towns!
You must be talking about Tazewell, VA....haha. When I moved here from large city never thought I would get excited over Dollar Generals and Dollar Trees. 😪
@@patriciabanks8314 lol I used to live a bit east of you outside Pearisburg in a little spot in the road called Pembroke. One fourth the size of Tazewell haha. Loved living there.
So damascus? Lol
Earth: Gets obliterated
Parents: *It's a boy*
Los llamos familia esta muy importante carnal.
Spotted
Bless your heart that only happens on the coast.
Avery: ?????
El niño?
I come from a small town in Kansas, around 400-450. I can relate to all of this! At one point we had around 20 family members living here.
I lived in a small town in KS. Population was 200. I'm pretty sure everyone was related!
Lived in a small town of 500 for many years. Teens in that school district have to ask their parents before dating anyone just to make sure that that they aren't related!
I can't imagine living in a place that small. My high school alone was 2,000 people
@@VRDennis my mother-in-law grew up in Southern California and her high school class alone was 1,200 kids. Then after graduation she moved to Minnesota and ended up living in a town where the entire population was only 790. I found that rather funny that there were more people in her graduating class than people in her new town.
My town was so small the 7 11 closes at 8.
Until recent times they did this in Australia for all cities
I used to live in a town so small that the USPS didn't even deliver the mail. The listings for the town took up less than a page and a half in the phone directory.
That's where we live now!!
That's about right!! I tell people where I live in AR that we just got sunlight 3 months ago. We live out in the sticks so far..
"Dollar General has considered putting a store here"
I remember learning how to drive in our ONE streetlight city...so far in the north, dollar general isn't even interested. There are twelve churches though...where the men are men and the sheep are nervous...
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Oh your small town is in Scotland? 😁
@@doberski6855 Sounds like Montana to me. :-D
@@nolgroth Two ranchers overheard talking in an Montana bar;
"How's your love life?", askes the first one. Second one replies after a sip of beer; "Not Baaaaaaaaaad"
😁
To all Montana ranchers, sorry but I couldn't resist.
@D Oberski : if its over that direction, me thinks it'd be _Wales_
“I think I’ve heard of that.”
“...No you haven’t”
I’ve had that exact same conversation sooo many times with people when I tell them where I’m from. 🤣🤣
Sounds like our little town In Oklahoma . Jay only has 3 stop lights and 2 of those is by the school.🤣😂🤣
You have a school, you're disqualified! XD
You had stop lights. My dad's town only had one blinker on main street where the two county roads intersected.
our town has 1 stoplight on the interstate 😏
Bro we have no stoplights and no lined streets
Schulter Ok. No stop lights, no blinky lights, just stop signs. We do have a school, Pre-K through 12, averages about 250 students total. Also, no Dollar Generals or grocery stores or gas stations. It's Oklahoma through so 3 churches and a bar (that real it only serves beer but no food).
May have trick or treat'd there as a child and recieved a package of peanuts...
I once lived in a small town where the only store around for 45 mins was a small corner store gas station. It only had two pumps that only worked half the time. They used to have a school surprisingly but it was shut down and now all children were sent to the school in the county over. We also lived on the border of another state so half the students lived across state lines. We had one small diner called The Lyon's Den. And let me tell you, the looks on the faces of my mom's work buddies when I (a 12 year old at the time) said my favorite diner was called "The Lyon's Den" was hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
My sister and her family live in Kansas just 2 miles south of the Nebraska border. Sounds very similar!
I live ur life lol
Middle TN officially but on border of AL n life happens in AL
Unless ur a kid having to be bussed an hr to school one way (up one side of mtn n down another)-so stupid
It's true. It's all true. 😭😭
😂😂😂
I just came back from my own small town. I'm glad to be back in a city.
I was up there for a funeral and halfway though a conversation with one of my cousins, another cousin's wife came running in with a bottle of vodka to hide it from the preacher.
I’m from a small town in California! You drive past the mall, you’ve driven right through it.
kristen chastain wait ! You had a mall ? Dang , that’s high city living right there ! Our little town has grown a little, we have a small strip mall at the crossroads but only a couple of businesses in it now. One step forward, two steps back.
We dont have a mall
Gotta love these skits
It's always an adventure. Sometimes a short, fun skit, and sometimes more involved. 😊
Them: ... Can't let nobody from church see those beer cans.
Me: They must be Baptist.
You never go fishing with only one Baptist--they'll drink all your beer.
I find it funny they made the joke about buying beer in small towns, but in Atlanta (technically the whole state of Georgia I think) you still can’t buy beer on Sunday before 1:00 pm. 🤔
I mean that lines up. Once you get out of church the liquor stores open. Presumably they were closed because the shop owners were at church.
@@kaldo_kaldo You mean
No off sale alcohol on Sundays in Minnesota
12:30 in my small town. I think 11 the earliest in a restaurant, but 12:30 for on site sales.
I'm from Australia (north)but I watch this channel becuase I find it so relatable (90% of the time) when I went to go visit my nanna her town didn't have any trafic lights and the last time it was a popular town was 150 years ago in the gold rush.
I can actually relate to the one traffic light claim. We also have one dollar general and one library, too. Geez, I guess my small town is just like the Jeffersons----we're movin' on up.
"actually"
Shady Dale, GA doesn't even have a traffic light ( aka red light, stop light, nobody says traffic light) just a 4 way stop.
Chesney TN. Literally one street, two churches, maybe 6 houses.
Wow, finally a worthy contender. Most of the people here live in metropolises compared to the smallest place I lived. One street also. But no churches and only two homes. And only two stores; both antique stores. 1 mailbox for the whole town, shared by the population of 2 people.
Warren and Radium, Minnesota. Two tiny towns. One post office: 6 mail boxes on a wooden board on front of the post masters home on a farm.
My Tennessee town is so small we don't have a Dollar General.
Just go down the road a couple miles and turn left by the falling down barn. No not that falling down barn, the other falling down barn. The Dollar General is between the cornfield and soybeans.
Nope
Us neither
No school, kids bussed forever to get to one
No cell reception
Used to be booming too-sad
I have lived my whole life in metro Atlanta, and I love my hometown ATL, but I cannot WAIT to move to a small town closer to the mountains of north Georgia.
Hahahahahahahahaha 🤣 I love the spaghetti-Western music 🤠
The small town my parents were from in Alabama, Collinsville, only had one good place for a cell signal. The hill behind the nursing home. My cousins would tell me they had to drive up there to call me!
Im from a small town in NC where we still have 1 stop light. And despite having a college..up until about 20 years ago we only had gas stations,a few local restaurants, and a dry cleaner. Now we have fast food, CVS, and Dollar General AND Dollar Tree!! The college has police but not the town. Which is good for my brother who gets all the off duty gigs.
LOL, Big ups to your brother!
Where at in N.C.?? I’m from N.C.
@@bigmike8435 ..Boiling Springs.
Nice!!! I’ve heard of it...never been through there. Thanks.
@@bigmike8435 ...very nice town..home of Garder Webb College
It especially awkward if it's a teacher. Mostly because you don't expect them to have lives when not in school.
I remember seeing this substitute I had one time in Chuck E Cheese (the only time I ever went, because it was like 45 minutes away) My only thought was how weird it was that he was teaching in a Chuck E Cheese. He was actually there with his son haha
Love this skit. Feels fresh. As much as I love Adam and Talia. You gave me more of four people I have been wanting more of.
This is hilarious! My husband actually comes from a small town (although we live in the Northeast) and basically, you have to triangulate your location by explaining like two or three other places and then say "yeah it's halfway between this place & this place." They have one Price Chopper, one Dollar General, a couple gas stations, one pizza place & fewer than 50,000 people. I get internet from my in-laws at their house but I don't get phone reception (to get calls or texts) until we drive for about 10 minutes down into town because they're on a mountain range about thousand feet above sea level. They still have to use a landline for phone calls even though they have cell phones too.
My town so small we dont even have a dollar general.
The worst thing you can say to someone in a small-town-off: "Oh yeah, I've heard of that place! It's really blown up since you left!"
There are more baptist churches in Alabama than there were people who went to my high school.
That is not a hard bar to get over. Probably true for a lot of schools in all southern states.
I went to hoover high school and I know for a fact there are WAY more baptist churches in Alabama than students who went to hoover High (3000 thousand kids)
as a son of a Baptist minister from Alabama I agree. Alabama is the Baptist center of the universe. Texas thinks they are but I live in Texas and they ain't got nuthin' over Alabama on this.
@@mannfan12 Well Bless your heart....That's probably because Texas has more Catholic churches, than Baptist churches....
@@cynthiapena8126 more Methodist churches too..
Theese videos have been keeping me alive
Lol, I love the dramatization. I have these conversations quite frequently with other small town southern folks. When I met someone from a small town that knew what "stumphole" was and proceeded to explain in detail what it was, I knew that I met my match lol.
Wait. What’s a stump hole?
I witnessed something very similar to this. In upstate New York, the girl from Wells won with “all we had was a family diner that shut down”, next in line was the girl from Caroga with “We just got our first dollar general”
There are so many Dollar Generals in my neck of the woods, I've seen them in places where I though "they'll get no business this far out," and yet they do!
When your so early theirs no fun comments to read 😂
Back in my home town when you had a wedding you had two receptions... one, everybody came to, often at the church social hall. And then the other one which the preacher DIDN'T go to where to booze and hootch came out. Usually at a lodge hall or the country club. The preacher knew about it, but it was never mentioned. Baptists never drink when the preacher is there.
Jews don't recognize Jesus.
Episcopalians don't recognize the pope.
Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
That last part about not letting the church folk see the cans is great😂😂
"Asserting dominance", by saying how much of a nomad you are...over here in Ireland, local Irish news reporters went in search of the most remote, off the grind, isolated person that they could find, to do a story on.
They found an old man, that never married, living in a back field of some farm, in an old house without running water, electricity, or a phone/Internet lines. Yes, Ireland is a first world country, had an average industrial income before the 2008 crash of €60,000 a year ($92,000 US at the time, I checked) and the pharmaceutical and IT heart of Europe. Microsoft, Apple Computers, Facebook, you name it, with our 12.5% corporate tax rate and an educated English speaking population, you name it, the IT or paracetamol company's European headquarters is probably here...
...yet you still can find really old people, but that old man, I doubt you could call being the most like him dominance. No offence. OK sketch though. Well done. Love, prayers and best regards from the Republic of Ireland.
👍👏🙋♂️😎✝️🙏🇮🇪💚🧡🇺🇲❤💙
We’re heading your way after the pandemic is over. 🇺🇸🇮🇪
@@JPMJPM I also love the tourists btw, they are always really happy on holidays and interesting to talk to. Like guessing their accents, I started years ago trying to guess which state the Americans came from, they are always ok with playing along. ❤💙👍
David O Donovan How fun!
@@JPMJPM 👍😎👏😁🙋♂️
@@JPMJPM Ohio, Texas or Kansas...I'm not even guessing based on your accent...so that's why I took three guesses.
these always make me laugh so hard 😂😂
When the ferries move to a different town, the normal shops close and thrift shops open up. Welcome to Stranraer in Scotland. All my clothes are a quarter of the price.
My town was so small we didn't have a Dollar General. We had a Dollar Private.
For real. I do this. 😂
I have the uncontrollable need to say my town had a Sheriff's station, pizza parlor, post office, and two gas stations when I moved there.
Whew, I had to say it.
My small town in NC really does have 3 Dollar Generals. Not that I’m complaining. I mean, you can walk to them
Natalie B what part? Im from the 252 area code, Beaufort Co. 🤣🤣🤣
Straight Outta Judah .... 336 area.... Triad
2:48 Sounds just like Scott County, MS! We cross a bridge over a mile long to buy alcohol!
As someone who grew up next to Southside, Atalla, Hokes Bluff, Alabama City and Chestnut Grove, I totally feel this.
This is one of our funniest ones!!! Thanks for the laugh 😁
...... grab some trash bags... We can't let anybody from church see the cans.
Anytime you get four people together from church, you usually find a "fifth" (of bourbon)🥃
I love these videos I'm from Virginia so we're not very southern but we're definitely more southern than other places (looking at you New York)
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Y'all are so good. I just love
Y'all talking about Richfield, PA here! Absolutely EVERYTHING said is true! 😂
You guys are spilling small town secrets! Shhhhhhh!
I always appreciate when there’s a character with no idea what’s going on because I’m just a young confused Canadian trying to piece together how I got here and why it’s so relatable 😅
I lived 20 miles outside a small town in Central Idaho. The town had a general store which served as a post office and gas station. The clincher for my small town stand off was: "Is your town on one side or both sides of the street?"
My Nana grew up in a town in Nebraska that doesn’t exist anymore. Kinda makes me sad :(
Great video though! 😀😀
My Dad was born in a town in Kentucky that doesn't exist anymore. Nebraska is more Southern in mindset than a lot of its neighbors- college football, church, and Spring football are important.
My mom is the same. She was born in a coal town that is gone.
Ive seen a few of these, and i was so confused the first time it happened. 😂
“Might could” I AM ON THE FLOOR
Lol, this is definitely so true! Grew up in (and moved back after my military hitch) Ajax, Louisiana. Even smaller than their examples lol. No grocery stores, not even a dollar general (nearest dollar general is 30 minutes away so you know its truly the middle of nowhere in the South)! Only two churches. No police, and barely cell. And yes, it was a dry area with no alcohol sales, I think they allow low percentage beers now in some cases, but naturally, we don't drink. Google maps can't even find our address, and not only is there no traffic lights, there are only maybe 5 stop signs, none of which are at a four way (or 3 way) stop. Best way to live, I lived and traveled to all 50 states and nearly 30 countries while in the USAF, and chose to come back here. You couldn't pay me enough to live in a city.
Wait. If there aren’t that many people there, why do they need two churches. 😆
Because its the South and we have lots of churches, partly because nearly everybody goes to church, and partly because church splits are a regional sport! There is a spot in Shreveport where you can stand in one place and see four different Baptist churches at the same time! Reminds me of the old joke about the guy that was shipwrecked alone on a desert island, and he gets found like 20 years later, and he is showing off all the things he built, "here is my house, and here is my workshop, and here is the church I built, etc.". The rescuers are like, "wait, what is that church over there?" and he says, "Oh, that's where I used to go to church"!
Haha! Nice gender reveal joke there.
Here's a metric: You must only have one gas station. With me so far? Mine only had two pumps. And the second one was diesel.
Once, I made a weird eco push that recycling was awesome for a school project and grilled people at the general store for statistics on their opinion about recycling. (I don't know, I just wanted an easy project where all I had to do was collect opinions and make a chart.) Turns out, somehow, someone convinced a poor sap at the county office to give us a giant recycling bin. It was there for maybe two years before everyone got bored of that and they stopped bothering to even deliver it anymore. Which is sad, because while it was there, all you had to do was sort your trash and you could wait twice as long to visit a dump. But I guess everyone just went back to burning their trash.
wow
This popped up in my feed. Love it.
“Not unless it’s two counties over, before 11pm, and not on a Sunday” 🤣🤣🤣 so true, y’all!
Y'all had a stop sign?!🤨😂 Actually in Tennessee it's more like
Schools: 0
Libraries: hahahahaha
Dollar Generals: nope, but there's a couple up the road aways
Gas stations: 1
Churches: 12
My dad launched a missile to mark my birth, should've done that instead of causing wildfires. A lot safer
Hey, aren't you supposed to be secretly dead or something?
"Might could". Perfect response. Bless their hearts.
I can beat that. The town I went to school in had 120 residents. No Dollar General, no hospital/clinic/pharmacy, 3 churches, and the mayor was the police chief and a preacher. Iraan, TX!
Was it a boy or girl??? Will this cliffhanger be solved? Dont leave us hanging.
Dose bieng first really mater?
Oh lord, if you never grew up in a small town or a very rural area, you will never get it.
I come from a little town so far out in the sticks the chickens had to wear diapers so the buzzards didn't mate with em! We lived so far out in the sticks, they had to pipeline us some sunshine! We lived so far out in the sticks, when you made the trip to the grocery store to buy a gallon of Blue Bell Ice Cream, you brought a couple of spoons from home so you could eat it on the way back because it would be totally melted before you got home with it! But the good news is, bring a straw with you and you can drink Blue Bell like a shake once it melts a little!