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03-02-2008, 07:07 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Georgia
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| Just doing a little venting You know that old saying that everyone is famous in a small town? Well, I am here to tell you it is TRUE. And if you didn't happen to be born and raised in that small town, you are even MORE famous because everyone is nosy and curious about what the "foreigner" does. In this case, the "foreigner" is ME. So at 8am this morning I got a phone call from my MIL. I went to the grocery store yesterday and someone she knows saw me there and saw me checking out. This person took it upon themselves to call Carol (my MIL) and ALERT her to the fact that I did not purchase any meat. She was just "concerned" that Mike and I were having "money problems" and couldn't afford to buy meat for our family and she was worried about "the poor children". I didn't buy meat because I'M A VEGETARIAN! How she didn't know that I don't know. Lord knows the rest of the town does. Its just another thing that makes me "weird". Then there are all the speculations and rumors going around about my health. According to the town gossip I've had everything from a brain tumor to cancer to the plague. And did ya'll know that in the 8 years I have lived here I have YET to be spotted in one of the 1500 churches around here. MIL brought this to my attention. So I told her it was because I was too busy sacrificing animals and small children on Saturday nights and I was just too tired on Sunday mornings. (OK, I DO acknowledge that probably was not a nice thing to say on my part, but I was mad). I am just tired of it all. No matter how much I watch what I say or do they still find something to talk about. I told Mike I am going to start sitting on the front porch in my bathrobe with curlers in half my hair and clown make up on and squirt everyone who comes near our yard with a water hose. They already think I'm crazy I might as well have some fun, right?
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03-02-2008, 07:09 AM | #2 |
My Four Sweet Babies Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Jersey near Philadelphia
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| LOL!!! I agree. Get out the water hose. I love your posts, they are always so funny and I'm glad you're feeling better.
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03-02-2008, 07:14 AM | #3 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Georgia
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| I HAVE to try and be funny. If I didn't have a sense of humor I really would go crazy. lol
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03-02-2008, 07:17 AM | #4 |
The Queen is back Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Canada
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| I live in a small town so can really relate and cracked up laughing at your post. My MIL is the biggest gossip and as hard as I try she usually manages to get on my last nerve as I have zero patience for gossip or interest in anyones business but my own.
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03-02-2008, 07:20 AM | #5 |
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| oh how I laughed at your post!! But I also know there is a serious side to this - something I have never experienced though, never having lived in a small town. Wow, I didn't realize it was anyone's business what you bought at the store! I am just in shock - goodness, I don't have time to worry about what other people having in the cart
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03-02-2008, 07:25 AM | #6 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| I couldnt live as close as you do to your Mother in Law. I get along fine with her too. There just needs to be some distance for privacy sake. I do live really close to a brother in law and sister in law so I can relate.
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03-02-2008, 07:30 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Georgia
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| A lot of it is my MIL, but a lot of it is other ppl in the town too. It is a VERY small town. I'm not from here, I was born in Alabama, plus my family was military so I traveled around some and that makes me "foreign". I can not even go to the little hole in the wall library they have because I swear to ya'll the ENTIRE TOWN will know which books I so much as looked at. It is crazy.
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03-02-2008, 07:30 AM | #8 |
YT 500 Club Member | I can certainly relate to what you are saying. When I was very young my family lived in a town of 250 people. We still had friends there for many years after, and one time we went back to visit one. She was an older lady, a widow, and she seemed to know everything that went on in town. My sister and I were teens, and we decided to go "downtown" to a little shop a couple blocks from her house. When we got back, she was on the phone with someone who wanted to know who those girls were who were walking around downtown!!!
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03-02-2008, 07:34 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | I can so sympathize with your problem. It's kind of funny here in this small town there is a fairly new housing addition started, none of the houses were selling though. I wondered why and was told it's because the only access to the new addition is the same street you have to turn on to get to the towns only liquor store. None of the the Christians (which is about 90% of the town) here want to be seen turning there for fear someone driving by will think they are going to the liquor store. I love living in my small town but the gossip can be an annoying thing, especially when you consider those doing the gossip usually have a few skeletons in their closets too. LOL....now you know you just have to show up at a church banquet some Sunday with a big ol' roast to stop the tongues wagging!
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03-02-2008, 07:38 AM | #10 |
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| I know what your going through... I live in a small town.. seems like everyone knows everybody and the apartments i live in. well they know everything about you.. where your going.. what you bought.. pretty much EVERYTHING. it's gets OLD real fast. I hope things start to look up for you soon. we sure have missed ya. hope your feeling better |
03-02-2008, 07:40 AM | #11 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Oh and I think its ridiculous that your neighbor gossiped about you not having meat in your cart. I often have no meat in my cart when go to the store. I get my meat from a butcher and deep freeze it. You could have been doing the same thing for all she knew
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03-02-2008, 07:41 AM | #12 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member | LOL. I'm sorry, but everything you were saying really cracked me up. I hope the situation improves for you, though. I totally understand the small town thing. Though for me it wasnt too bad most of the time. My old town was about 7000 people within 1 sq. mile (probably less people because everyone was moving away), which may not seem too small, but when your parents have lived there for 16 years its like random people come up to you and go "Wow, Megan, you've gotten so tall." lol. So my brother and I couldn't do or get away with ANYTHING because someone would be calling my parents telling them. When my dad fell down the stairs and broke his leg, a bunch of random people brought over dinner for us. and we've also had the downside to small towns. My mom used to be the board of ed. president, and after some events, the whole town ended up hating her with the exception of like 3 people (and then shortly after, they realized that she was right and came crawling back. )
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03-02-2008, 07:46 AM | #13 |
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| LOL!!!!! I was raised in a small town of 500- I know just what you are taking about! Worried because you bought no MEAT!!!! LOL!!!!LOL!!!!! They are nosey!!!!! I always figured that they had pretty boring lives when , thy have to talk about mine! And If they were not talk about, me- it would someone else! Now I just live in the country- and they have to come out here to find something to talk abut!!!! I hope the venting helped some!!!!
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03-02-2008, 07:48 AM | #14 |
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| Wow how dare you not buy any meat lol I think its sick that someone has nothing better to do then investigate what you buy at the store. I think the next shopping trip you should buy a playboy mag or one of those off the wall magazines and see what is said next. I think I could have fun with this. I never go shopping in my towns store. Just because Im not of of the "in crowd" towns people Im treated like total crap in the store. So I go to the next town over and go to Acme to go shopping.
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03-02-2008, 07:52 AM | #15 |
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| Nothing like small town gossip. I work in the school district where the dirt is dished on a regular basis. I'm blessed to have a best friend who doesn't gossip. Keeps me balanced.
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