"Legitimately being late for school or appointments due to being stuck behind a tractor."
"You or someone you know has a personal vendetta against a wild animal in the area"
"Having your name and age listed in the local newspaper when you’re pulled over for speeding and your family/friends get to give you sh#t for it because everyone lives to read the weekly police report."
"You need to carefully plan out your shopping needs because that trip to Walmart or Home Depot might be a two-hour round trip."
"If you don’t make dinner you don’t eat. No uber eats or grub hub, no delivery pizza or takeout, unless you want gas station food.
Most places nearby close by 5:00PM on weekdays and have extremely limited hours or are closed entirely on weekends."
"Standing on my back porch in winter and there is absolute dead silence."
"Weather changes your life. I’ve sat on the porch with my parents watching hail destroy our wheat crop days before it was due for harvest. There’s nothing you can do. You just watch. I’ve also stood in a circle with my parents and older brother in the yard while we prayed for rain. For farmers, weather is destiny."
"Weird noises in the woods? Deer. Glowing eyes in the shadows? Deer. Something following you down a dark country road? Deer. It’s always f@#king deer."
"Country life is slower than your lifespan.
City, you can go year after year seeing new buildings pop up, business, events, etc.
Country life…same county fair every year, maybe a new building every 10 years, new business 5 years."
"The little wave you give when passing a vehicle going the opposite direction on a country road. Bonus points if you’re cool enough to just raise your first two fingers off the steering wheel.
Also, saying hello to a stranger on a hiking trail, or at least giving a little nod and smile. I can always tell someone isn’t from here when I say “hello” on a hike and they look at me like I’m an alien."
"The sound of spring peepers can be deafening. Also, I miss it with all my heart."
"Dogs. Dang it! People just driving out and dropping off unwanted dogs. Once some coward dumped their mother dog and her 6 puppies near my front lawn. I hope there is a special place in hell for those people."
"How dark it is at night. You see how many stars there are, how bright and gorgeous, how busy the night sky truly is."
"If I call 911, nobody will be here for AT LEAST 30 minutes for EMS, 45 for fire, and an hour for police.And that’s assuming they have nothing else to do and respond immediately.
If the house is on fire, you call the neighbors. In less than 10 there will be half dozen tractors with water tanks and hoses.
Lop your foot off? Call the neighbors. They’ll drive you to the ER.
Somebody means to do you harm? Shoot back or die waiting for the Sheriff. Your choice."
"You’re probably on well water, which means that if the power goes out, you no longer have water. That also means that you get one, maybe two flushes of the toilet, and I bet you’re not top priority for the electric company.
Choose wisely.
Or get a generator."
"Just how safe it is.
For 13 years I didn’t lock my car up. Hell, half the time I left the keys in the ignition.
Plenty of spring and autumn nights I went to sleep with my front and back doors open. Windows were open 24/7 during those times, even if I were gone."
"Driving home in a storm. A tree fell across the road in front of us (Mom and daughter). The truck behind us got their chainsaws out of their toolbox and moved that tree withing 15 minutes. Also there is not cell service everywhere. Only one service works consistently from my house."
"I own a house that sits smack in the middle of three cattle farms.
The other night, I took my dog out to pee well after dark.
There was a weird noise, and a pair of glowing eyes at the end of my driveway. It was, of course, a cow.
I called my neighbor to the North. He drove his UTV down, inspected the cow, didn’t recognize it, and called my neighbor to the south.
He sent his teenage son over in a car with no catalytic converter/muffler. He also didn’t recognize the cow.
Finally, my neighbor from the West was summoned on his ATV. It was his cow.
The rest of us stood there drinking beer and watching the Western neighbor drive his cow home with an ATV.
Good times."
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#16 Okay, I didn't leave keys in the ignition but rarely locked it. Nothing to steal in the car and no broken windows. Nobody wants an older Mazda anyway.
This. Most cities in western world (maybe except in America, don't know) are much safer than you would think.
lol crime isnt prevalent. that's called anecdotal evidence and you count what...the 30 mins you go for lunch and commute to work? i guess you forgot how honks are illegal now, leaf.