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    John Mellencamp sang about small town living. Many of us grew up in the sticks and while that's where my heart is, my family dragged me into a small town 25 years ago.

    I had ordered a tool for my boat a couple of days ago. Tracking said it would arrive on Friday from Amazon. I had to run by the post office to pick up a book of stamps to mail my Mother her birthday card. As I walked away from my truck towards the building, I heard a horn blow several times. Normally I would have ignored it but it kept up. I looked towards the noise and saw a hand waiving wildly out of a UPS truck on the street in front of the post office. The UPS truck whipped into the parking lot and my normal UPS guy said "I've got a package for you". It was the tool a day early. We small chatted at 6 feet apart about business and how things were going. As he drove off, I wondered how many of us still really know our mailman? Our UPS driver? Folks in our community? Our NEIGHBORS? This guy knows the folks on his route and saved me another a trip to my shop, which I had just left. I thanked him for his kindness.

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    John Mellencamp sang about small town living. Many of us grew up in the sticks and while that's where my heart is, my family dragged me into a small town 25 years ago.

    I had ordered a tool for my boat a couple of days ago. Tracking said it would arrive on Friday from Amazon. I had to run by the post office to pick up a book of stamps to mail my Mother her birthday card. As I walked away from my truck towards the building, I heard a horn blow several times. Normally I would have ignored it but it kept up. I looked towards the noise and saw a hand waiving wildly out of a UPS truck on the street in front of the post office. The UPS truck whipped into the parking lot and my normal UPS guy said "I've got a package for you". It was the tool a day early. We small chatted at 6 feet apart about business and how things were going. As he drove off, I wondered how many of us still really know our mailman? Our UPS driver? Folks in our community? Our NEIGHBORS? This guy knows the folks on his route and saved me another a trip to my shop, which I had just left. I thanked him for his kindness.

    We will get over this virus crisis and be better for it. Maybe we can't go back to Mayberry but a small town doesn't look so bad.
    I wouldn’t say I live in a small town (we have a bunch of stoplights and even a Walmart!) but lucky for me the same ups guy that delivers to the house, also delivers to the police station where I work, so if I have anything fishing or hunting related that I’m waiting for he usually gives it to me there since he’s stoping at the station anyway.


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    Yep, grew up in a small town and remember the days well. But with hospitals doctors and jobs in the larger town... and my bride wanting to move, it only made sense to retire there. But hey, it is still a short drive to some good crappie fishing.
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    This story sounds so familiar. I used to have a package delivery man who occassionally fished. In my small town everybody knew this very likable man and trusted him. It got to the point that when he had a package for me from a fishing supply (bps, gander, etc) he would open it to see the current baits that I was using. Then he would order some too. He knew I wouldn't mind. Small towns can get to be large families.

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    I have bags of homemade cookies thanks to my darling wife that I dole out to my UPS, USPS, and FedEx deliverers and I know their names. Initially, I knew the Amazon driver but now it can change daily because of their volume. I offer cookies to them too.


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    I live rural, 6 mailboxes on our road. Our mailman and UPS driver know us well.
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    We have one traffic light and walmart. We are bigtime here. Didn't get very far in life. IMA about 40 miles north from where I started in life.
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    I know a guy around Cincinatti. He told me back in the depression, the people from KY were moving north towards the north. How far you got, showed how much money you had when you moved. He said my family didn't make it very far across the OH line, cause they didn't have much!

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    I wasn't born in a small town but it was my choice to move to a small town and the hardest thing to get use to was they roll up the sidewalks at 12 oclock on Saturdays if they are even open. I'm 17 miles from the first red light on a 1 road in 1 road out, they call it a highway but its a twisting and turning road that follows the levy on the Red River. There is a little country store were they still pay by saying put it on my tab and you settle the bill on the first of every month. I love it and wouldn't live anywhere else. Oh yea we still have traffic jams when someones cows get out on the road.
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    we live right in the middle of a hot mess . don't know most of the neighbors and keep to ourselves pretty much . sometimes it sad sometimes its not . its all relative I suppose .
    i used to live so far out of town it was for ever to go buy toilet paper , now i live right in town and its forever to go buy toilet paper
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