Life in small-town Nebraska is a little slower, a little friendlier, and a lot more secure than living in a bigger city. Since most of Nebraska is made up of small towns, I imagine most of us can relate to these – or at least know someone who can.

1. You have no idea where your house key is because you've never locked your front door.
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2. Every time you go to the grocery store, at least three people stop you to ask how your family is.
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3. When you go to the gas station or grocery store, there's at least one unlocked car running out front with no one in it.
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4. Your first job was detasseling corn.
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5. You know what "knee high by the 4th of July" means.
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6. When you were a kid, mom called you home by yelling your name from your front doorway - and you heard her no matter where you were in the town.
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7. Your school bus ride was an hour each way every day.
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8. You drove your first tractor before you were out of diapers.
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9. ...And you learned to drive Dad's pickup by the time you were 13.
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10. You do this every time you see another car on the road.
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11. You've had to stop your car to wait for a loose cow to get out of the street.
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12.Your idea of a traffic jam is five or six cars driving behind a tractor.
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Are you from a small Nebraska town? What parts of the experience did we miss?

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