Big Doings in My Little Town
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
October 2, 2015 11:50am CST
I don't live in town, I'm 8 or more miles outside of town. It's not much of a town. We have a Piggly-Wiggly (a not so wonderful grocery store), a few banks, a few gas stations, two dollar stores, one barber, 3 or 4 beauty shops, one dentist, two doctors, a hardware store and the courthouse....that just about covers it.
Restaurants include: Hardee's, Subway, a Mexican place I can't remember the name of, The Blueberry Pig and a little joint that locals gravitate to that isn't my cup of tea.
About a year ago word on the street was McDonalds was coming to town and it would be open in January. January came and went and so did lots of other months. We go to or through town several times a week. We went through town a few days ago and nothing was different.
We went for our haircuts yesterday and guess what? Yes, McDonald's construction has started. Since I no longer get the local paper I didn't know about it and still don't know when it will open, but it doesn't matter.
I don't eat fast food (or fried food) and my husband only likes their fries so having a MickyD's in town won't mean much to us except for the trash that will wind up on our road. We have McDonald's cups on the side of the road as it is and the closest one is 15 minutes away!
Oh the jobs of fast food.
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@yukimori (10192)
• United States
2 Oct 15
That sounds like the town I spent my childhood in, although our grocery store was a Safeway rather than a Piggly-Wiggly. It was such a big deal when they broke ground for the new McDonald's restaurant. The running joke for a while was that McDonald's had put us on the map, because they had a map showing all of the locations in the state on the paper tray liners. 
I hope that you don't see a significant increase in the amount of debris coming from that sort of thing on your road. We were lucky enough to live far enough away that it wasn't a big concern... we just had to worry about new neighbors who didn't know that they had to put rocks on the bins on trash day to keep the ravens out of them.
I hope that you don't see a significant increase in the amount of debris coming from that sort of thing on your road. We were lucky enough to live far enough away that it wasn't a big concern... we just had to worry about new neighbors who didn't know that they had to put rocks on the bins on trash day to keep the ravens out of them.1 person likes this
@yukimori (10192)
• United States
2 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill Maybe a big clay urn filled with various bits of steak bones and wood ash, with a sign that says "ashes of former litterbugs" on it? 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
2 Oct 15
@yukimori Like that would fly out here in the boonies - that sign would be full of bullet holes in a day!
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Oct 15
I grab fast food now and then, but not more than a couple times a month, still more jobs!
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 15
There is a very small employment pool out here in the boonies.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 15
@Jessicalynnt There aren't enough teens in this town to keep the other two or three places in employees.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
3 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill true, that will give the youngers more chances to get work at least, places like that are almost always staffed by teens
@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
3 Oct 15
Quirks of living in a small town! 
My grandma lives in a big township and I feel so good to be down here.
Sometimes, I think it's better not so many joints and food centres have opened there. Kind of a refreshing place.
your town does sound great!!!
My grandma lives in a big township and I feel so good to be down here.
Sometimes, I think it's better not so many joints and food centres have opened there. Kind of a refreshing place.
your town does sound great!!!@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 15
I live outside of town so I'm lucky not to be involved in the 'everyone knows everyone's business' which happens in small town America.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
3 Oct 15
@ria1606roy It must be the same all over the world.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
3 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill haha yeah. I've read in American fiction books about small towns that word goes around pretty fast. That's same here too. Small towns are same everywhere I guess.
