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Little towns often appear peaceful and quiet, but that doesn't mean there are no controversies brewing beneath the surface. In fact, a recent Reddit post by user u/Pessimistic_Soviet demonstrates quite the opposite.
It invited residents of small communities to share local gossip and the responses did not disappoint. From debates over property rights to political scandals and corruption, the thread serves as a reminder that drama is not exclusive to big cities.
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#1
Surprisingly enough, there isn’t one at the moment. In our 3k pop town everyone has come together recently because one of our local homeless veterans lost his pet cat. The entire town has banded together to try and find her and even hated enemies are planning out search parties together.
#2
There's a llama on loose in this town. The police can't catch it. The humane society can't locate it. And no one is claiming ownership of it. It's been sighted in several locations on the outskirts of town where there are multiple small farms. Sometimes it wanders into town and peruses through people's yards. People have complained to the police who claim they can't corral it as it's the Wyle E Coyote of llamas. It just doesn't want to be caught.
#3
Not current but it needs to be documented in history - the serial Catnapper.
A couple lost their cat so they went knocking door to door in our town, and came across their cat crying in a random home's front window. They call the police who arrive and find 50+ missing cats, along with a f*****g graveyard of cats in the garden. Some that had been missing for up to 7 years. It culminated in the catnapper, a 50+ year old woman, stuffing as many cats as she could in a car and going on a police chase through our little town.
Most of the cats were identified and taken home, a very small few went to rescue centres, and the catnapper is currently going under mental health treatment. Apparently she just took home any cat she saw while on a walk for the last 7 years.
This happened about a couple years back but I had to tell the tale.
#4
Our local brewery has begun regularly hosting a drag show and the locals are going ballistic.
#5
Nothing current but I have a great one from 5 years ago:
So we had a guy who was quite the Libertarian. He owned a gun store in town and pretty much kept to himself. He will be known as LibGuy
The problem started when he decided to have chickens for his own eggs but he lived within the city proper which had a rule against farm animals within the city (this is a rural farming area I live in). One of the city council members (he shall be known as A-hole) discovered he had chickens a few weeks after he got them and the city sent him a letter telling him he had to get rid of them. Well, he was not going to go down without a fight. So he spent some time looking into things and discovered the A-hole who reported him lived within the city and he also had chickens.
Well, this of course caused a bit of a scandal. The city ended up claiming there was a grandfather clause for anyone who had livestock within the city prior to the rule change 17 years ago. The problem with that was that clause applied to the A-hole's father, not the A-hole who lived at the same address. Needless to say, the war was on!
A couple of weeks go by and the town cops are messing with Libguy over petty s**t. Libguy somehow gets a recording of A-hole calling the police and lying to them about what Libguy was doing. Police now want to charge Libguy for some absurd ridiculous recording law that really doesn't apply since it was someone with the police dept who gave him the tape not that he stole it. This gets blown up to the point where the bigger cities news crews are now showing up to city council meetings that are being called to address this issue. These meetings are getting absurdly blown out of proportion and in all honesty somewhat slimy and jicky in how the city is handling it. Libguy subpoenas the city council emails to show there was a concerted effort to f**k with him and cover for A-hole.
Well in the course of getting the Emails it was discovered that there was a sexting issue going on between three of the city council members. LMAO, believe me when I say this did not involve people that would be considered sexy. all three (2 women and 1 male) were married, 200lbs plus, and in their 50's. I mean Emails about double-dildos, pegging, swinging...etc..It was hilarious.
In the end, the Libguy got the last laugh. he lost his chickens but found a loophole where he could actually own Llamas in the city since they were not considered [livestock. So](https://livestock.So) he put up a fence all around his yard (ugly chicken wire fence) just tall enough so the Llamas could not get out by jumping. People actually would go by walking their dogs and pet the Llamas. The problem though was that Llamas s**t like cows and it stinks in such a small enclosure. This went on for about a year until he sold his house and moved (it stunk for at least a block around his property and he lived right behind the town's grocery store). Two of the council members involved got divorced over the sexting issue and the third one sold her bar because of it.
This was the infamous chicken scandal that plagued my town of 4K for 3 years.
#6
I was back in my old small home town over Christmas.
The local newspaper carried the headline “Woman abused in local park”
I was initially shocked that such a thing could happen in my safe town, until I read the detail that a woman had asked some teenagers if they were really old enough to be drinking those beers, and they told her to bugger off.
Front page, lead headline.
#7
In our small English village, someone has managed to knock over one of the speed limit signs at one end of the road. It's a mystery, everyone is trying to guess who did it/what happened. Was it intentional? Except it's not a mystery in our house. It was my sister and she hit it when she swerved out of the way of an oncoming car (narrow country road). We'll keep acting like we are as clueless as everyone else though.
#8
I live on a dead end street in the woods. There are only 7 houses on our street, so everybody knows everybody. And for the most part, everybody likes everybody… with the exception of Frank. Frank f*****g sucks. Frank has 3 or 4 s****y vehicles parked on the narrow street in front of his house, despite having ample room to park the vehicles in his driveway. He blows all of his leaves into the street and leaves them there. He is loud, obnoxious, and rude. He burns s**t in a barrel in his backyard, despite a borough ordinance against it. And Frank gets away with everything, because Frank’s brother is one of only five cops. It sucks.
Anyway, one other thing about Frank is he has a royal a*s ton of feral cats that live on his property. They set up shop under the s****y shed behind Frank’s house and just crank out kittens. The cats visit our home and f**k with our indoor cats through the windows, are constantly setting off the neighborhood dogs, and leave small animal corpses *everywhere*. Well, someone finally snapped and had been systemically catching Frank’s cats and taking them to the humane society. It took him a couple weeks to notice, but Frank has finally noticed that he is short 5 or 6 cats. He has knocked on everyone’s door to ask if they have his cats, or if we know who took his cats. Everyone knows exactly who took the cats, but nobody says d**k about s**t because everyone hates Frank and his f*****g cats.
F**k you, Frank.
thatbisexualtacocat 1 year ago
It just shows how much she hates Frank. I don't think they're a problem
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Lindilou 1 year ago
The kind thing to do would be to neuter Frank's cats not have them put down. Cats are not evil creatures, people are. Hate Frank not his cats.
Charity Angel 1 year ago
No one said anything about them being put down. As I understand it, the humane society neuters and rehomes.
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Deborah B 1 year ago
Good on the cat-trapper. If you can't tame feral cats, they should still be trapped, neutered, and either returned to their colony if they're wanted, or resettled somewhere else, eg as barn cats.
Brazen 1 year ago
I adopted a cat from an adoption place that only rescued ferals. Not quite true that you can't tame them. My boy was the sweetest thing ever when he got used to living with us. I also had a street cat adopt me when I was 18. Just walked into my house and didn't leave. She only really liked me though. :)
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Susan Green 1 year ago
Poor cats. They are better off being taken to the humane society, where they can be spayed or neutered and have responsible people adopt them.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
I commented this on another post, but it applies here too, so: Had a neighbor who fed any and all cats. Didn't steal any, but where I live, practically no one spays or neuters, so... yeah. When animal control finally came out, they removed nearly 200 cats. Couple weeks later, there was an update in the local paper: two of the cats were up for adoption. The rest all had feline lymphoma and had to be put down. Oh, and our 3-year-old cat caught it from them and died, along with most of the other cats in the neighborhood. Neighbor ultimately moved to assisted living, house sold for dirt cheap, but the buyer ended up having to completely gut the place, cost him hundreds of thousands. Moral of the story: SPAY AND NEUTER.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago
Oh s**t. Sorry to hear it about your poor kitty. I had a somewhat similar story. I took in some cats I found that had been thrown out a car window. The two that survived has all sorts of problems, including FIV, which is contagious to other cats. I couldn't take them back home and risk my adult cat. Happy ending though, the vet found someone to take them both, but they had to be indoor cats, to not risk others. I payed to get them both spayed.
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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
People feed the stray cats out here and we have a Coyote problem. The coyote's have no natural predators. The only thing that decreases their numbers is starvation. Well, they never starve bc there are so many fat cats. Now all our animals are getting eaten. They wait until you take them out for a walk and then they pounce. They're not even scared of humans anymore. And of course they eat all the indoor/outdoor cats. I'm terrified every time my dog escapes out the front door. If you want to feed stray cats you should be obligated and trap and neuter/spay. At least then you're being responsible and not fattening up the coyote population.
SuperChicken 1 year ago
Couldn't someone, anonymously, call Humane society or ASPCA (or something like that) since Frank is not really taking care of his cats?
ISeeWendiGo 1 year ago
Don't hate the cats when it's Frank's f*****g fault! Because of this, I agree, f**k Frank!🖕
Jessica J. 1 year ago (edited)
Sounds like a male version of my next door neighbor, if you also add dogs staked out, or caged in, to the mix. And no ASPCA to call to fix it.
Riley Quinn 1 year ago
Every neighborhood has a "Frank", but they can be curtailed if everyone works together.
Maria Rodriguez 1 year ago
That's actually terrible to catch his cats and take ferals to the humane society. They have deemed feral cats not adoptable and euthanize them. I know they say they are no kill, but it's the loophole if they won't ever get a home or family are too aggressive they euthanize.
Maria Rodriguez 1 year ago
Get them fixed and put them back. Maybe frank would love the help doing so
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Icecream Sarang 1 year ago
Can you report them to your local animal control? Most cities have a limit on how many pets you can actually own. The city animal control found a surplus of cats in my parents’ neighborhood. They do a trap, fix, vaccinate, and. release to keep the population sustainable enough to still have a good number of hunting animals. (If you vaccinate the entire cat population, you eventually lose your natural hunters, and other animals become out of control since the cats aren’t there to keep THEM in control.)
Humansarethevirus 1 year ago
Wow sef entitled Karen only your allowed to eat and live? Disgusting evil b***h!,,,,
StarlightPanda! 1 year ago
They should make it go viral so something is legally done about this guy and his cop brother. No one is above the law. ><;
Onion Patch Petunia 1 year ago
I used to believe that too, about 60 years ago!
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#9
A guy wanted to bury his parents on their (parents’) slightly rural, totally out of the way, virtually-no-neighbors property, but the village said no way. We don’t do that here. We’re classy. So he went to the state for permission to build a funeral home/crematorium instead, and he built a giant mausoleum with both their caskets right on the corner of the property where everyone and their grandma can see it when they drive by! And he has zero plans to actually turn this into a functioning business. It’s about half done, no landscaping, and construction vehicles parked all over the place. Gotta hand it to him!
[progress!](https://imgur.com/a/BMzmHps)
(July 2022)
#10
They’re still trying to figure out who is Black.
The village has 249 people. On the census everyone reported white except one person who reported biracial or something and now the demographics show that the town is .7% Black.
#11
Someone mentioned opening up a yoga studio. People are losing their minds because yoga is not Christian and of another religion.
#13
My family thought that the term “Karen” being used on Facebook specifically meant the woman named Karen that works at the gas station near me. I had mentioned her once at home and my mom was like “Oh everyone hates her on Facebook right now! They all think she’s a snitch!”
#14
About 2 years ago the mayor of the town I live in got caught with drunk driving his lawnmower down main street at around 2 AM about 6 weeks after being elected.
Edit: I can't wrap my head around the fact that my mayor getting drunk and driving a lawnmower would become one of my most upvoted comments but here we are.
#15
So our controversy has been resolved…But the town I grew up in had a Beefalo (cow Buffalo cross breed) escape from a slaughter house. It spent months running wild in the wooded areas around town living off whatever it could find to eat. I had friends who were out for drives sending me pictures of their beefalo encounters like it was Sasquatch. This went on for months.
The story got picked up by a big YouTube channel and went viral.
https://youtu.be/C3-ZpXp6oe8
Edit: Thanks everyone for the awards! Didn’t expect to wake up to this. Glad you all enjoyed the story.
#16
Small town with 3000 inhabitants. Everyone knows each other, everyone knows where everyone works, who is related to whom, and so on. Still, my cousin doesn't know who is the father of her child.
#17
The eccentric millionaire that owned every building in down town and used them to house his extensive rock collection died like 15 years ago and they still haven't figured out what to do with all the rocks.
#18
Our local utility is finally going to start fluoridating our water, and all the old farts and Karens are out protesting on Nextdoor and Facebook. And we’re like “wtf, we haven’t been fluoridating this whole time? What year is this?!”
#19
My parents live in a tiny Greek village that has a grand total of three families (including my parents) and currently they're trying to rectify the fact that our dog killed our neighbor's chicken.
#20
Sheep:
Whether or not to continue allowing a flock of sheep to graze on the town green (with a petting area for lambs).
Some think the sheep do a fine job of keeping the grass under control (and fertilized) - others want landscaping professionals to do the job.
#21
Trash pick up is a constant battle.
So get this.
Everyone I talk to wants roll carts. Across all sorts of backgrounds, ages, and so on. However the rich side of town thinks that roll carts might hurt the aesthetic of their neighborhood. Some city council members live in that area, but no one seems to want to bring it to a vote.
Okay, fine. How about normal trash cans? Nope, same issue.
Okay, how about we mobilize the citizens and get the a measure approved that will force the city council to vote on it? Yay we did it! Oh wait the deciding voter, who had been elected on a pro-roll cart basis, decided to be out of town the day of the vote.
The solution? City labeled trash bags that you only get so many of each year, and which you need to pay for more if you go over your allotted amount. They will not pick up trash if they are not in the specific trash bags.
Of course the various animals we have living here who like to eat trash see the city bag and go "oh no, cant eat that!" Not.
The neighborhoods look like garbage multiple times a week because bags get split open either by animals or people overfilling them so they dont run out of bags. The city will not collect split bags.
The city council also passed a measure saying they wouldn't speak on/debate trash collection for X amount of time.
Trash collection is now on our questions to ask about when looking for a new house.
#22
The woman who just got elected mayor owns most of the property downtown, and all the open seats on city council went to her employees. Can’t wait to see the corruption in action.
#23
We have a Starbucks trying to open in my hometown, but half the city doesn’t want it to happen saying it’ll kill the small businesses around it. Literally being built like two doors down from a local coffee shop. The towns up in arms about it.
#24
In my wife's home town of about 2k people, the road side produce stand guy is in a feud with a new SECOND produce stand that just opened. The original produce guy trained the new guy for a while apparently then fired him, now the fired guy opened his own spite produce stand. They got in a fist fight and now the whole town has taken produce stand sides. The mayor and the only police officer in town are also involved and their wives are fighting. It is truly the dumbest version of Hatfield's and McCoys, but no less redneck.
Edit:
This blew up, I have asked my wife for the screenshots she had. These are what the original guy sent the new stand guy, which he then posted on his FB. What he wrote is 10x better than anything I wrote I promise.
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Xy80Yrn
#25
People here in my town of 396 still upset that the local Christmas tree was taken down and thrown away with all the lights still on it.
#26
One guy wanted to open a gas station but the property wasn’t zoned for it. The town wouldn’t change it for him, so he put toilets on all of his properties and used them as flower planters. The town has tried many different strategies to get rid of them, to the point where the made a law and then tried to enforce it. They got their butts sued off and the toilets still stand. To be fair, he keeps them in great condition and replaces any broken ones after storms.
Edit:It was a dunkin donuts not a gas station
Edit 2: another interesting thing, the local high school mascot is the steve the sandstoner, so all of our apparel says stoner pride.
Link about it https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/ep4p3p/let-this-man-keep-his-toilet-gardens
#27
LoL The Mayor has a personal feud with this one guy that has an emotional support pig while living in the village. Housing farm animals are illegal within the village.
#28
Local pizza place fired all its staff mysteriously last summer and closed for a few weeks. Naturally, rumors fly right away. Turns out the Mormon owner (who liked to parade his family as the paragon of small town virtue) was having affairs with multiple staff members. The wife kicked him out, fired anyone who knew, and then rehired and trained a bunch of new staff.
One of the fired staff members then opens her own pizza place to rave reviews in the nearest town over. OG pizza place announces it will close at the end of the year - right after they run a promo for gift cards. People are pissed they only have a few weeks to use the gift cards they just bought (and were planning to give as Christmas presents) After weeks of record sales, OG pizza place announces they're staying open after all and now people are pissed they used up the cards they'd intended to give as gifts.
Tl;dr: one pizza owner is disgraced, his wife kicks him out and takes over, then his mistress opens a competing business. Then a bait & switch about closing leads the entire town to be pissed off.
EDIT: I just got off the phone with my dad and he told me that new pizza place was actually founded by TWO mistress. I straight up didn't believe him and he sent me the website for the new place. Yep, Mistress #2 is a manager. And their pizza names are all spinoffs of OG pizza place.
#29
My small home town is currently upset because the Amish don’t pick up their horse c**p as they drive down Main Street in their horse & buggy.
#30
One guy started a home addition without getting the required permitting then threatened to beat up the mayor when confronted about it. The mayor backed down and let him do it.
That spread around town so others have also threatened the mayor to be able to build things they shouldn't so now some people in town are just doing whatever they want with their yards and houses which is starting to cause problems as they dig and cut various things underground because of course they aren't calling to get surveyed for where all the underground infrastructure is
#31
Population of 1000 here... some of the power got knocked out bc of a racoon doing some dumb s**t on a power line.
#32
I don't live in a small town but my small bit of the city were amused today. A woman posted in the local neighborhood Facebook group to say a woman had knocked on her door at 6.25am. The reason was she had tracked her missing husbands phone to the address. He had not come back the night before. The man was not there and the poster was a bit concerned. This led to much chat about burglaries and whether she should post the ring doorbell footage. A man then joined the thread to apologise. It was the missing man. He had got drunk at the football and ended up falling asleep in the house next door to the woman who posted on Facebook. Much hilarity.
#33
a couple promissed a lot of cakes and fancy breads to the local festival, and didn't deliverd
everyone is mad at them for the last 2 weeks
#34
They took down a memorial to a person involved with the Confederacy, but it doesn't seem to have fixed any of the problems faced by the black community, so now the white people don't have any more ideas.
#35
Yards were dug up two years ago to lay to-the-house fiber in preparation for fiber being dug down along the road.
Still no fiber along the road.
EDIT: Holy c**p this blew up. Guys, stop, I can't download all these replies until I get fiber!
#36
Someone changed the local Facebook page from "SmallTown Community Page" to "SmallTown Antivaxxer Group". The ensuing debates and confusion as to how the page moderators had their accounts hacked and who was behind it. I s**t you not, the current chief suspect is the moderator of the rival SmallTown community faceboom group. Lockdown has given some people too much time on their hands.
#37
A woman on the city council constantly spouts about cleaning up the admittedly horrible drug problem in town and goes on sanctimonious rants on social media about it.
Her son is the main dealer in town. He lives in her house. It's not a secret at all and he gets arrested for s**t all the time and she gets him off the hook every time.
Full disclosure I don't live there anymore thankfully but most of my family does.
Edit: I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it is to thin competition. Although to be perfectly honest the town is only like 1,000 strong and he really doesn't *have* competition. Mostly because people know his mom can pull a few strings and f**k you over or just run you out of town.
#38
The city I live in (around 10k residents or so) doesn't allow food trucks to operate outside of things like festivals. There has been a push to change that, and, coincidentally, majority of most vocal people against them are restaurant owners.
#40
They are widening the sidewalks on main street through town. The plans have been available and has been going through red tape for years. Part of the plan is parallel parking on a small section.It got the ok and a bunch of people including my aunt went down to complain. It would appear that those people including my aunt have no idea what the plans look like nor did they provide them at the townhall meeting they just don't want parallel parking. I looked at what the end result would be and it's an absolute necessity. Tldr people hate change.
#42
Thousands of crabs washed ashore dead but nobody really knows why, I think they blamed wind turbines at one point.
Dogs are now getting really sick and there’s warnings for people to stay away from the beach but nobody knows why it’s happening.
#43
About a year ago my hometowns favorite eating establishment burnt down. Lotta people pooled money to get him a new spot. A failing car salesman converted his place to a restaurant and partnered with the beloved restaurant owner. Business was thriving, food was fantastic and it was THE place to get food. The failing car salesman was talking and then some to the local bicycle behind his wife's back and was giving her free drinks and the two would stay at the place way beyond closing time. One of her kids went on her phone and was scrolling and found nudes on her phone of car salesman. The kid sent it to his friends and the friends sent it to even more people. Now basically the entire town has seen this red headed man nude wearing cowboy boots. Beloved restaurant owner quit and business is no longer booming because he has no cook. Car salesman is getting a divorce and closing the restaurant and this happened only 4 days ago.
Edit 1: Wow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes! This post has more upvotes than the population of my hometown (1.7k)
Edit 2: sorry for the confusion regarding local bicycle. I told this story as if it's to someone in my town who would just understand so that's on me. Reddit we gotta talk, a lot of you are trying to stand up for this lass, good on you, but she's a lady with 21 kids with 19 different lads and all but 4 have a reputation in the town. The 4 that don't are because the fathers have full custody of them. She's really not a very redeemable character in this situation.
Edit 3: a few asked for the photo to be uploaded and what the heck!? Lol you guys are wild!
Edit 4: so the beloved restaurant owner left the car salesmans restaurant partnership because of this fiasco. Some say there was some tension about how the business was ran and some say there was tension because he was cheating on his wife.
Status Update: the latest rumor off the old grape vine says the restaurant owner got a killer deal from the local real estate guy and will renovate an old closed business downtown into his new restaurant! Fingers crossed because he really knows his stuff.
#44
So this one has been ongoing for a while, but... The Nutcrackers.
My hometown (where I no longer live, but still have family so I keep apprised of local matters) has decided, in a bizarre bid to increase tourism, to become The Nutcracker Town.
The reason? An older woman donated her nutcracker collection to the historical society. Something like 2,500 nutcrackers. I think because her kids told her flat out they would dispose of them after she died if she did not make alternate arrangements.
So, the town decided, well, they had all these nutcrackers on display. This could be good for tourism. We could be known for something.
People were bewildered and predictably upset. A lot of townsfolk don't *want* to be the nutcracker town. All the local businesses have been pressured to buy these giant expensive cardboard nutcrackers from the local print shop. They are *terrifying.*
There's been general outcry. Facebook groups, the whole nine yards. And still the town persists. Still there are these hollow-eyed giant cartoonish cardboard nutcrackers everywhere you look.
Edit: Someone guessed it, so I have effectively triangulated myself (internet safety fail 101). If you want to see some local news on the subject, [look no further.](https://www.keloland.com/news/eye-on-keloland/history-center-hopes-to-have-more-nutcrackers-than-people-in-luverne/)
Edit 2: Okay, since many people have asked (and not everyone can access the news sites), I've attempted to upload a picture of [the cardboard nutcrackers.](https://i.imgur.com/lVQ9zUd.jpg) Let me know if it doesn't work and I'll give it another go!
#45
yall have like decent answers and in my small a*s uk village it is legit just this person being villager of the year for the 7th year in a row
#46
In my town there was an empty building that is being built into a bar and nightclub. Across the street is a church and the church is p****d and trying to stir up everyone by protesting a bar so close to their church building.
#47
All the new infrastructure is centered on sports. No renovations for the library, no place where we could have decent stage for shows and theatre, no nature park, only skating rinks and baseball and tennis courts.
#48
Local mcdonalds wants to build a drive thru, some people are dead against it, but others think its long overdue as the mcdonalds is always crowded. The people against believe it'd ruin the character of the area. I'm not sure where I stand.
#49
The town just spent a LOT of people's tax dollars to create a new logo and slogan.
The logo? It's an Satellite image of the town with the main roads of the square being highlighted to look like a tic tac toe board.
It's seriously a BIG controversy right now, because anyone with Google earth and Ms-Paint could've made it.
Edit: People have been asking for the link. Here you go!
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/monticello-gets-new-logo-slogan-close-to-everything-far-from-everyday/article_bd4b9e48-0ee4-5fca-85a9-9f3354e23e43.html
#50
3 kids stole s**t from the local shop, werent even wearing covid masks so we have perfect pictures of them
What do you think ?
Angela B 1 year ago
*looks at empty popcorn bowl* Has anyone got anymore goss to contribute? Please? That was so much fun!
Lizzie Lola 1 year ago (edited)
This was decades ago, but I lived in a small unincorporated town in OH, the village next to us was Amish/Mennonites and some English. Across from our Jr. High, was an Amish farm. One night my friend went joyriding in his dad's van and crashed into the fence. The next day at lunch, a cow wandered into the cafeteria.
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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago
Ok folks, at just what weight, height, and age are we required to consider ourselves unworthy of a sexual relationship? Is any romance forbidden for us hilariously unsexy people, or are we still allowed to get a card on St. Valentine's day? Are there rules written down somewhere about this? How much does each unsexy factor weigh before we're required to join a monastery or convent? Are there layers to this? Can a 200 lb. person still be sexy if they're tall enough? What if it's a short, old person who only weighs 150? Us hilariously unsexy people need to know the rules here. At what point are we too disgusting to show our faces on the streets at all?
Seabeast 1 year ago
The critical people will be old themselves some day. Then they will no doubt be totally shocked to find out that they are no longer considered desirable.
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fair_weather_rose 1 year ago
Y'all are like "in my small town of 3,000-5,000, everyone knows everything about everybody." I live in a city with 700 people, and not even the mayor knows everyone!
Leo Domitrix 1 year ago
In fairness, I didn't even have a town growing up, more a loose community of farms in nowhere, but everyone knew someone who knew someone else who knew the original everyone, and that was the end of all fun right there.
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Contribution: From hubby's I think second(third?) cousin in UK, south of England. "Your house doesn't match the tone of our village" stuff. "Paint the trim these threwe colors". (IIRC, red, white, black or some specific shade of green.) It's nto law, so Hubby's relative painted the exposed wood on his Tudor-ish home... neon yellowy-green. (Or greeny yellow?) Village then fussed at him for his hedges not conforming. So he trimmed his boxwoods from a nice box to... well, to be blunt, breast-like mounds. Village again faints. Ironically, he wound up selling the place at well over market b/c the village just wanted rid of him! (This goes back about 20 years, mind.)
Scarlett 1 year ago
In my small town, the poor side, which funnily enough includes the center of town, has been complaining because we’ve had two five alarm fires in the center of town in the past couple years and nothing’s come out of it. None of the old poorly maintained abandoned buildings have been taken down or given proper maintenance. Mainly because the rich people in our town are greedy a-holes and don’t care about anything other then their fancy side.
EmBree 1 year ago
In the village I grew up in, the priest got drunk, attacked the store owner, and beat him with a vodka bottle. This happened at the store in the middle of the day and there were plenty of witnesses. The priest thought the store owner had an affair with his wife. That's how the whole village found out that she was having an affair, with the hotel owner. >>> Even further back in time a 6 yo kid got hold of his father's AK-47 and fired off several rounds in the middle of the village. No one was hurt but a building was hit. The nearest cop was two hours away and the villagers decided to handle it on their own.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
With a few exceptions, a lot of these were almost wholesome for us folks living in big cities with crippling social inequalities, housing scarcity and whatnot. I've always hated small towns, but sometimes l miss that kind of peace.
Trillian 1 year ago
I grew up in a small town (although still way bigger than those mentioned here) and I hated how everyone was always in everyone else's business. Moved into a big city (1 mio) and no regrets. Yes housing costs an arm and a leg but at least no one is commenting on the looks of my front yard.
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GrowingThruConcrete 1 year ago
Some stole our gas stations donut delivery for the 3rd time https://www.timesreporter.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/16/thief-takes-doughnut-deliveries-in-the-early-morning-hours-in-stone-creek/70015760007/
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I lived in a tiny town in Texas, about 2000ish people if you count the surrounding farms. There was a jail near by and during a storm 2 men got out. They found one of them right away, but didn't find the other till 2 days later. He was hiding on top of the Dairy Queen.
Deanna Crichley 1 year ago
Years ago, we had a very snowy winter. People would dig out their cars to go to work, and come home later to find other cars parked in the spot they'd spent an hour digging out. So people started putting chairs in the spot they'd dug out. Lawn chairs, kitchen chairs, folding chairs...well, people just started moving the chairs and taking the parking spots anyway. Street parking was about all that was available. There were fist fights. There were windshields smashed with chairs. The police department got a dump truck and picked up every chair in town, and dropped them off at the park. The front page of the newspaper showed the giant mountain of chairs, and said if anybody wanted their chair back, they could collect it at the park. A local radio station said they hid a chair in town, covered with the station's bumper stickers. Whoever found the chair was to take it to the radio station and trade it for a recliner, and a fridge full of beer.
Jane Alexander 1 year ago
Years ago in our small town everyone seemed to know that ___ had killed is wife. The only law in town then was a constable. -same guy.
Julie Schulz 1 year ago
I grew up in a small, Midwest town (approx. 1250 people). There are a lot of good things about living in a small town and several not so good things, the gossip and prying into everyone's business is what I hated most. I like the small town atmosphere but not the small town politics or thinking. I now live in the country outside a city of approx. 25,000 which is perfect. Most of the stores and conveniences I need, plus good jobs, but still country living.
tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa 1 year ago
Not exactly small-town but my street is convinced that my old neighbour was a ww2 spy because he was old af when he died a couple years ago, he knew german, polish, french, and english (we know this because he was learning portugese(?) and the woman who was his tutor found this out), and he had basically nothing in his house. It was a hell of a time trying to find documentation for the hospital and estate lawyer.
Izzy Curer 1 year ago (edited)
The other day, I drove through a town with a Walgreens across the street from another Walgreens, and I can only assume they're at war with each other.
Trentin Quarantino 1 year ago
The small UK village I used to live in has a cruising and dogging layby
Ashley S 1 year ago
When *everything* was shut down at the beginning of covid, the cops were called to bust a party at our local bar. They show up at 3am & who to they see? The mayors wife dancing on a table, completely sloshed. It made international news. 😂 He publicly denounced her behavior and she was hauled off to rehab. He lost the next election.
Angela B 1 year ago
*looks at empty popcorn bowl* Has anyone got anymore goss to contribute? Please? That was so much fun!
Lizzie Lola 1 year ago (edited)
This was decades ago, but I lived in a small unincorporated town in OH, the village next to us was Amish/Mennonites and some English. Across from our Jr. High, was an Amish farm. One night my friend went joyriding in his dad's van and crashed into the fence. The next day at lunch, a cow wandered into the cafeteria.
Load More Replies... Shyla Bouche 1 year ago
Ok folks, at just what weight, height, and age are we required to consider ourselves unworthy of a sexual relationship? Is any romance forbidden for us hilariously unsexy people, or are we still allowed to get a card on St. Valentine's day? Are there rules written down somewhere about this? How much does each unsexy factor weigh before we're required to join a monastery or convent? Are there layers to this? Can a 200 lb. person still be sexy if they're tall enough? What if it's a short, old person who only weighs 150? Us hilariously unsexy people need to know the rules here. At what point are we too disgusting to show our faces on the streets at all?
Seabeast 1 year ago
The critical people will be old themselves some day. Then they will no doubt be totally shocked to find out that they are no longer considered desirable.
Load More Replies... fair_weather_rose 1 year ago
Y'all are like "in my small town of 3,000-5,000, everyone knows everything about everybody." I live in a city with 700 people, and not even the mayor knows everyone!
Leo Domitrix 1 year ago
In fairness, I didn't even have a town growing up, more a loose community of farms in nowhere, but everyone knew someone who knew someone else who knew the original everyone, and that was the end of all fun right there.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 1 year ago
Contribution: From hubby's I think second(third?) cousin in UK, south of England. "Your house doesn't match the tone of our village" stuff. "Paint the trim these threwe colors". (IIRC, red, white, black or some specific shade of green.) It's nto law, so Hubby's relative painted the exposed wood on his Tudor-ish home... neon yellowy-green. (Or greeny yellow?) Village then fussed at him for his hedges not conforming. So he trimmed his boxwoods from a nice box to... well, to be blunt, breast-like mounds. Village again faints. Ironically, he wound up selling the place at well over market b/c the village just wanted rid of him! (This goes back about 20 years, mind.)
Scarlett 1 year ago
In my small town, the poor side, which funnily enough includes the center of town, has been complaining because we’ve had two five alarm fires in the center of town in the past couple years and nothing’s come out of it. None of the old poorly maintained abandoned buildings have been taken down or given proper maintenance. Mainly because the rich people in our town are greedy a-holes and don’t care about anything other then their fancy side.
EmBree 1 year ago
In the village I grew up in, the priest got drunk, attacked the store owner, and beat him with a vodka bottle. This happened at the store in the middle of the day and there were plenty of witnesses. The priest thought the store owner had an affair with his wife. That's how the whole village found out that she was having an affair, with the hotel owner. >>> Even further back in time a 6 yo kid got hold of his father's AK-47 and fired off several rounds in the middle of the village. No one was hurt but a building was hit. The nearest cop was two hours away and the villagers decided to handle it on their own.
Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago
With a few exceptions, a lot of these were almost wholesome for us folks living in big cities with crippling social inequalities, housing scarcity and whatnot. I've always hated small towns, but sometimes l miss that kind of peace.
Trillian 1 year ago
I grew up in a small town (although still way bigger than those mentioned here) and I hated how everyone was always in everyone else's business. Moved into a big city (1 mio) and no regrets. Yes housing costs an arm and a leg but at least no one is commenting on the looks of my front yard.
Load More Replies... GrowingThruConcrete 1 year ago
Some stole our gas stations donut delivery for the 3rd time https://www.timesreporter.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/16/thief-takes-doughnut-deliveries-in-the-early-morning-hours-in-stone-creek/70015760007/
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I lived in a tiny town in Texas, about 2000ish people if you count the surrounding farms. There was a jail near by and during a storm 2 men got out. They found one of them right away, but didn't find the other till 2 days later. He was hiding on top of the Dairy Queen.
Deanna Crichley 1 year ago
Years ago, we had a very snowy winter. People would dig out their cars to go to work, and come home later to find other cars parked in the spot they'd spent an hour digging out. So people started putting chairs in the spot they'd dug out. Lawn chairs, kitchen chairs, folding chairs...well, people just started moving the chairs and taking the parking spots anyway. Street parking was about all that was available. There were fist fights. There were windshields smashed with chairs. The police department got a dump truck and picked up every chair in town, and dropped them off at the park. The front page of the newspaper showed the giant mountain of chairs, and said if anybody wanted their chair back, they could collect it at the park. A local radio station said they hid a chair in town, covered with the station's bumper stickers. Whoever found the chair was to take it to the radio station and trade it for a recliner, and a fridge full of beer.
Jane Alexander 1 year ago
Years ago in our small town everyone seemed to know that ___ had killed is wife. The only law in town then was a constable. -same guy.
Julie Schulz 1 year ago
I grew up in a small, Midwest town (approx. 1250 people). There are a lot of good things about living in a small town and several not so good things, the gossip and prying into everyone's business is what I hated most. I like the small town atmosphere but not the small town politics or thinking. I now live in the country outside a city of approx. 25,000 which is perfect. Most of the stores and conveniences I need, plus good jobs, but still country living.
tHeBoRdEsTpAnDa 1 year ago
Not exactly small-town but my street is convinced that my old neighbour was a ww2 spy because he was old af when he died a couple years ago, he knew german, polish, french, and english (we know this because he was learning portugese(?) and the woman who was his tutor found this out), and he had basically nothing in his house. It was a hell of a time trying to find documentation for the hospital and estate lawyer.
Izzy Curer 1 year ago (edited)
The other day, I drove through a town with a Walgreens across the street from another Walgreens, and I can only assume they're at war with each other.
Trentin Quarantino 1 year ago
The small UK village I used to live in has a cruising and dogging layby
Ashley S 1 year ago
When *everything* was shut down at the beginning of covid, the cops were called to bust a party at our local bar. They show up at 3am & who to they see? The mayors wife dancing on a table, completely sloshed. It made international news. 😂 He publicly denounced her behavior and she was hauled off to rehab. He lost the next election.
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