I grew up in a small town, not even a town really. There were two grocery stores, a pizza place, a video store, and three fast food restaurants all crowded around a place in the road where two highways crossed. Everything else was back roads and a man made lake, sometimes I wish I could go back even though I swore I never would. Some of the best times of my life took place in around that small town, doesn't this sound like fun?
// Riding around for hours with the windows down. Endless hours of conversation and our favorite songs blowing out the windows as we went.
// Cruising around the court house square before the former cruisers outlawed it and before gas was to expense to spend your time in a weekend traffic jam.
// Camping by the lake after the prom with no adult supervision, laughing into the night long after we should have been asleep.
// Rolling the house of that one bitch in school that you just couldn't stand, some of you may have called it teepee but in the south we called it rolling.
// Skipping school to hang out in subdivisions that weren't finished yet but already had piers built.
// Jumping off of Jack's Bridge into the lake below.
// PJ parties in the parking lot after work (the alcohol not the dress) left over from someone's weekend party.
// Hanging out in the Food Lion parking lot because the "cool kids" hung out in the Lowe's parking lot across the street and we longed to be different even then.
// Walking endlessly around the campground (wooden shacks built for church camp meetings not where you set up a tent) for the last two weeks of summer talking to friends and giving side eye to enemies.
// Hours spent in the beauty aisle at the 24 hour Walmart 30 minutes away because what else was there to do?
How did you have fun growing up? Did you live in a small town or a big city?
i've always been a city girl; grew up in one, live in one now although let me confess a secret: i've always read and dreamt about going away for a whole summer to a small town where everyone knows each other, you pass the time by driving around the town or hanging by the lake or just reading in the evenings on the porch.
ReplyDeleteHonestly all the above sounds like a pretty stellar childhood - from movies growing up in a small town has always seemed fun!
ReplyDeleteI used to live in a small town and I miss it so much!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Houston, but spent most of my school holidays in a small town in Missouri. It was fun to live in the busy city but then have small breaks away to relax in the country!
ReplyDeleteMy childhood was so tame I feel pretty lame now. It was kickball and dodgeball in the streets. I never skipped school, the Catholic guilt of a single parent.
ReplyDeleteI loved this.
ReplyDeleteWe used to hang out in Drug Emporium. LOLOL
I used to hang out at Meijer! bahahahah!
ReplyDeleteHahaha I always hung out at Walmart at weird hours too. Though, I didn't really live in a small town in high school. It was actually quite large! I live in a small town now though and I love watching and seeing what the kids these days do. They aren't near as creative as we were!
ReplyDeleteIs that a photo of you?? So nostalgic! I grew up in the suburb of a larg-ish city but times were definitely simpler then. We used to play hide and seek in the neighborhood, ride our bikes all day, and go shopping at the Dollar Store.
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