Jimmyeatworld
Silver Member
You know you're in Nocona, Texas if....
1-Everyone automatically assumes that you know everyone else in town.
2-Sixty percent of the population was born and raised here. The other 40% hails from some northern state.
3-A business will vacate any location and move to another building down the road just to say they've relocated.
4-"Sitting at the car wash" is a social activity.
5-There's a dirty, old, half empty section of town that is considered part of downtown.
6-You can't comment on the hospital, road crews, or school administration due to the fact that they have WAYYYY to many issues to discuss.
7-You will never have a problem finding someone with a cell phone.
8-You understand the terror and depression associated with "rodeo weekend".
9-Everyone smokes....and I mean everyone. Babies smoke in this town.
10-The only place to see live music is the rodeo dance...that's sad folks.
11-You have loyalty to one of the two major burger joints and feel kinda guilty if and when you eat at the other one.
12-You forget about the third burger joint most of the time because it's "to far out".
13-You have to deal with the stupidity of people coming in from every which angle on and off of Hwy 82 and the "Indian Bridge".
14-A black person passing through town stops traffic.
15-Carrying jumper cables in your car and measuring distances with minutes isn't only ok, it's required.
16-If directions to a location usually start with something like, "You know where Bill Jones used to live? Well, that ain't it..."
17-In order to gain employment at a gas station or fast food place, you must be able to miscount change.
18-You've been warned your entire life to stay off of Lulu Bells Bridge.
19-You refer to both Jaycee Park and Oak Shores as "the boat ramp".
20-You see no problem having a conveniece store on every corner.
21-You can't go out in public for more than 15 minutes without running into your friend, or their parents, or cousins, or a teacher, or other relative, or your friends ex, or some other person that you've met before but can't for the life of you remember their name.
22-It's perfectly acceptible to have a $900 dollar stereo system in a $200 dollar car.
23-You can kill someone but don't have to worry about getting caught as long as you do it between police rounds.
24-You know something about at least one city official that would shame them into resigning in any other town.
25-There are only two good roads and they are always the ones being worked on.
26-You can always tell the new cop by how many people he pulls over in a day.
27-You have your choice of 17 churches, but only one bar.
28-If you lock your vehicle doors, but leave your back door open at night.
29-You can't take a three mile jog without either passing a trailer house or an oil derrick no matter which way you go.
30- The definition of stamina is being able to have 24 bottles of Coors Light and walk to your bed.
31-You find entertainment in the brand name of your household toilet seat.......( Go Bemis!!! Its your birthday!!!!)
32-When the umpires for pony league baseball consider the sport to be professional and actually try to fine players.
33- When you have enough time to write things like this.....
1-Everyone automatically assumes that you know everyone else in town.
2-Sixty percent of the population was born and raised here. The other 40% hails from some northern state.
3-A business will vacate any location and move to another building down the road just to say they've relocated.
4-"Sitting at the car wash" is a social activity.
5-There's a dirty, old, half empty section of town that is considered part of downtown.
6-You can't comment on the hospital, road crews, or school administration due to the fact that they have WAYYYY to many issues to discuss.
7-You will never have a problem finding someone with a cell phone.
8-You understand the terror and depression associated with "rodeo weekend".
9-Everyone smokes....and I mean everyone. Babies smoke in this town.
10-The only place to see live music is the rodeo dance...that's sad folks.
11-You have loyalty to one of the two major burger joints and feel kinda guilty if and when you eat at the other one.
12-You forget about the third burger joint most of the time because it's "to far out".
13-You have to deal with the stupidity of people coming in from every which angle on and off of Hwy 82 and the "Indian Bridge".
14-A black person passing through town stops traffic.
15-Carrying jumper cables in your car and measuring distances with minutes isn't only ok, it's required.
16-If directions to a location usually start with something like, "You know where Bill Jones used to live? Well, that ain't it..."
17-In order to gain employment at a gas station or fast food place, you must be able to miscount change.
18-You've been warned your entire life to stay off of Lulu Bells Bridge.
19-You refer to both Jaycee Park and Oak Shores as "the boat ramp".
20-You see no problem having a conveniece store on every corner.
21-You can't go out in public for more than 15 minutes without running into your friend, or their parents, or cousins, or a teacher, or other relative, or your friends ex, or some other person that you've met before but can't for the life of you remember their name.
22-It's perfectly acceptible to have a $900 dollar stereo system in a $200 dollar car.
23-You can kill someone but don't have to worry about getting caught as long as you do it between police rounds.
24-You know something about at least one city official that would shame them into resigning in any other town.
25-There are only two good roads and they are always the ones being worked on.
26-You can always tell the new cop by how many people he pulls over in a day.
27-You have your choice of 17 churches, but only one bar.
28-If you lock your vehicle doors, but leave your back door open at night.
29-You can't take a three mile jog without either passing a trailer house or an oil derrick no matter which way you go.
30- The definition of stamina is being able to have 24 bottles of Coors Light and walk to your bed.
31-You find entertainment in the brand name of your household toilet seat.......( Go Bemis!!! Its your birthday!!!!)
32-When the umpires for pony league baseball consider the sport to be professional and actually try to fine players.
33- When you have enough time to write things like this.....
