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We live in Mayberry...and I LOVE it!
Literally!...We live in a small town in North Carolina. Very quiet, very Mayberry where everyone knows everyone. My husband called me on his way in to the office this morning and described a scene right out of the Andy Griffith Show that had me laughing so hard I had to share it.

He went to the barber shop on his way in to work and the barber was sitting in the doorway to his shop admiring an expensive, fancy sports car parked along main street. My husband and he checked it out and the barber said it had been sitting there for two days and was covered in dust with a license plate that says "Nvr fold" from a neighboring state. The car is a brand new Aston Martin model with a starting retail price of $126,000.00 (according to Siri). What is a car like this doing in our little quiet town?

So what do Floyd the barber and Gomer do (my husband is way better looking and much more intelligent than Gomer but I always liked that character from Mayberry so I'm going with it)?...they call Barney from the Sheriff's office over to help them investigate, of course! When Barney arrives, they first ask if he can unlock the doors so they can get a better look inside the car...unlike Barney, our deputy does not comply. LOL But he DOES run the plates and determine that the car is not stolen. Then they check to see if there are any poker tournaments in our area judging by the lingo on the license plate...might be a "whale" in town for a game of "Texas Hold'em"...nope, no tournament.

So Floyd, Gomer and Barney go next door and ask the lady who runs the pizza parlor if she knows anything about the car and she says she saw an Asian man in his 40's pull up in it the other day but didn't know who he was and hadn't seen him since. In a town where everyone knows each other, a middle-aged Asian man would certainly stand out and so the plot thickens. 0.o

They are left with no choice and Barney does the only thing he can do...he writes a ticket for being parked there overnight (which I didn't realize til now that that was a violation) and puts it on the car windshield. Now there's a stakeout going on between Floyd the barber, Barney the deputy and the lady from the pizza parlor (Gomer had to get on to work but is monitoring the situation and will follow up on his way home) to see if anyone comes back to the car today. I guarantee you, if my husband didn't have pressing matters at work to deal with, he would be sitting on a bench outside the barbershop today with a hole cut out in a newspaper spying on that car til the owner returned! The suspense is killing us! LOL

*Sigh* I love living in a small town.
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"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9

"It will be good for those servants whose master finds them WATCHING when he comes..."Luke 12:37

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I live in a somewhat small town.

A box, years ago, was erroneously delivered at the end of the driveway. It was huge. I called the company on the papers attached to the box and they said it was flat bedded to the wrong address. They could't arrange a pick up for two days out.

Well…

It was as if a spacecraft landed in our yard. People walked by. People drove by at night (with their lights off) to get in close. Neighbors suddenly felt the urge to walk.

It was SO bad…I had to rig up extension cords to put in one of those stick-in-the-ground flood lights so the light could shine on this giant box for fear someone would open it or steal it and I'd have to explain it or pay for damages.

It was an event for some reason.
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Mt. Airy is nice.
I ate there once, it was nasty.
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I live in a somewhat small town.

A box, years ago, was erroneously delivered at the end of the driveway. It was huge. I called the company on the papers attached to the box and they said it was flat bedded to the wrong address. They could't arrange a pick up for two days out.

Well…

It was as if a spacecraft landed in our yard. People walked by. People drove by at night (with their lights off) to get in close. Neighbors suddenly felt the urge to walk.

It was SO bad…I had to rig up extension cords to put in one of those stick-in-the-ground flood lights so the light could shine on this giant box for fear someone would open it or steal it and I'd have to explain it or pay for damages.

It was an event for some reason.
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That is HILARIOUS! The same sort of reaction would have been had here as well! Thanks for sharing that!
"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9

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The barber is going to call me if and when the owner shows up...will try to get more info..i'll report back..

Barney is keeping an eye out too.

LOL,

Gomer
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I live in a somewhat small town.

A box, years ago, was erroneously delivered at the end of the driveway. It was huge. I called the company on the papers attached to the box and they said it was flat bedded to the wrong address. They could't arrange a pick up for two days out.

Well…

It was as if a spacecraft landed in our yard. People walked by. People drove by at night (with their lights off) to get in close. Neighbors suddenly felt the urge to walk.

It was SO bad…I had to rig up extension cords to put in one of those stick-in-the-ground flood lights so the light could shine on this giant box for fear someone would open it or steal it and I'd have to explain it or pay for damages.

It was an event for some reason.
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That is HILARIOUS! The same sort of reaction would have been had here as well! Thanks for sharing that!
 Quoting: **Watcher**


Thanks for sharing your town and your story!

It's amazing how the smallest of things seem to make the biggest reaction. And when something really is important, it seems to make not a ripple!

In your town does everyone seem to take with actual names as if you know their world?

For example:

Suppose you're just standing their at a store looking at something, in a store in your town. And someone comes up to you because you're looking at, let's say houseplants.

They'll come up to you and say:

"Yeah. Elsa has a plant like this. When Frank wanted to take some time off, they took Jake and Sarah up to the lake. Martha was gonna house set Roxie and walk her, but she forgot to water the plant."

AND you don't even KNOW who the hell is talking to you!!!
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I need that GLPer with all the Barney Fife smilies to drop a few of them in this thread! LOL

Meanwhile, this will have to do...

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The barber is going to call me if and when the owner shows up...will try to get more info..i'll report back..

Barney is keeping an eye out too.

LOL,

Gomer
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Thanks for the update, Gomer! Keep us posted!
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Literally!...We live in a small town in North Carolina. Very quiet, very Mayberry where everyone knows everyone. My husband called me on his way in to the office this morning and described a scene right out of the Andy Griffith Show that had me laughing so hard I had to share it.

He went to the barber shop on his way in to work and the barber was sitting in the doorway to his shop admiring an expensive, fancy sports car parked along main street. My husband and he checked it out and the barber said it had been sitting there for two days and was covered in dust with a license plate that says "Nvr fold" from a neighboring state. The car is a brand new Astin Martin model with a starting retail price of $126,000.00 (according to Siri). What is a car like this doing in our little quiet town?

So what do Floyd the barber and Gomer do (my husband is way better looking and much more intelligent than Gomer but I always liked that character from Mayberry so I'm going with it)?...they call Barney from the Sheriff's office over to help them investigate, of course! When Barney arrives, they first ask if he can unlock the doors so they can get a better look inside the car...unlike Barney, our deputy does not comply. LOL But he DOES run the plates and determine that the car is not stolen. Then they check to see if there are any poker tournaments in our area judging by the lingo on the license plate...might be a "whale" in town for a game of "Texas Hold'em"...nope, no tournament.

So Floyd, Gomer and Barney go next door and ask the lady who runs the pizza parlor if she knows anything about the car and she says she saw an Asian man in his 40's pull up in it the other day but didn't know who he was and hadn't seen him since. In a town where everyone knows each other, a middle-aged Asian man would certainly stand out and so the plot thickens. 0.o

They are left with no choice and Barney does the only thing he can do...he writes a ticket for being parked there overnight (which I didn't realize til now that that was a violation) and puts it on the car windshield. Now there's a stakeout going on between Floyd the barber, Barney the deputy and the lady from the pizza parlor (Gomer had to get on to work but is monitoring the situation and will follow up on his way home) to see if anyone comes back to the car today. I guarantee you, if my husband didn't have pressing matters at work to deal with, he would be sitting on a bench outside the barbershop today with a newspaper spying on that car til the owner returned! The suspense is killing us! LOL

*Sigh* I love living in a small town.
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You are so lucky! We use to be like that until Detroiters began moving into a town nearby and meth etc.
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I live in a somewhat small town.

A box, years ago, was erroneously delivered at the end of the driveway. It was huge. I called the company on the papers attached to the box and they said it was flat bedded to the wrong address. They could't arrange a pick up for two days out.

Well…

It was as if a spacecraft landed in our yard. People walked by. People drove by at night (with their lights off) to get in close. Neighbors suddenly felt the urge to walk.

It was SO bad…I had to rig up extension cords to put in one of those stick-in-the-ground flood lights so the light could shine on this giant box for fear someone would open it or steal it and I'd have to explain it or pay for damages.

It was an event for some reason.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 42079795


That is HILARIOUS! The same sort of reaction would have been had here as well! Thanks for sharing that!
 Quoting: **Watcher**


Thanks for sharing your town and your story!

It's amazing how the smallest of things seem to make the biggest reaction. And when something really is important, it seems to make not a ripple!

In your town does everyone seem to take with actual names as if you know their world?

For example:

Suppose you're just standing their at a store looking at something, in a store in your town. And someone comes up to you because you're looking at, let's say houseplants.

They'll come up to you and say:

"Yeah. Elsa has a plant like this. When Frank wanted to take some time off, they took Jake and Sarah up to the lake. Martha was gonna house set Roxie and walk her, but she forgot to water the plant."

AND you don't even KNOW who the hell is talking to you!!!
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HAHAHAHA!!!! Absolutely!

There is a consignment shop in our town that I don't DARE take anything to because everyone would know just whose it was and what Sunday that particular dress was worn to church by whom! LOL

As outsiders go, we are relatively new to our town (even though we have lived here going on 10 years). If you aren't a part of the approximately 5 common family names from the area, you "aren't from around here".

And I don't care how long we live here...our home and land will never be referred to as our property. It is and always will be referred to as the property of the family who were the original owners or who owned it the longest. And everyone knows exactly who owned what property. We had to come to terms with that to get along here...but the mountain views are SO worth it! chuckle
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Literally!...We live in a small town in North Carolina. Very quiet, very Mayberry where everyone knows everyone. My husband called me on his way in to the office this morning and described a scene right out of the Andy Griffith Show that had me laughing so hard I had to share it.

He went to the barber shop on his way in to work and the barber was sitting in the doorway to his shop admiring an expensive, fancy sports car parked along main street. My husband and he checked it out and the barber said it had been sitting there for two days and was covered in dust with a license plate that says "Nvr fold" from a neighboring state. The car is a brand new Astin Martin model with a starting retail price of $126,000.00 (according to Siri). What is a car like this doing in our little quiet town?

So what do Floyd the barber and Gomer do (my husband is way better looking and much more intelligent than Gomer but I always liked that character from Mayberry so I'm going with it)?...they call Barney from the Sheriff's office over to help them investigate, of course! When Barney arrives, they first ask if he can unlock the doors so they can get a better look inside the car...unlike Barney, our deputy does not comply. LOL But he DOES run the plates and determine that the car is not stolen. Then they check to see if there are any poker tournaments in our area judging by the lingo on the license plate...might be a "whale" in town for a game of "Texas Hold'em"...nope, no tournament.

So Floyd, Gomer and Barney go next door and ask the lady who runs the pizza parlor if she knows anything about the car and she says she saw an Asian man in his 40's pull up in it the other day but didn't know who he was and hadn't seen him since. In a town where everyone knows each other, a middle-aged Asian man would certainly stand out and so the plot thickens. 0.o

They are left with no choice and Barney does the only thing he can do...he writes a ticket for being parked there overnight (which I didn't realize til now that that was a violation) and puts it on the car windshield. Now there's a stakeout going on between Floyd the barber, Barney the deputy and the lady from the pizza parlor (Gomer had to get on to work but is monitoring the situation and will follow up on his way home) to see if anyone comes back to the car today. I guarantee you, if my husband didn't have pressing matters at work to deal with, he would be sitting on a bench outside the barbershop today with a newspaper spying on that car til the owner returned! The suspense is killing us! LOL

*Sigh* I love living in a small town.
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You are so lucky! We use to be like that until Detroiters began moving into a town nearby and meth etc.
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We are blessed! Sorry to hear that about your town.

I grew up in a town in the South that was thriving when I lived there because of a denim manufacturing plant in the area. Shortly after graduation, that plant was shut down and I am concerned for my aging parents who still live there. Their once nice quiet neighborhood is now surrounded by drugs, crime and low-lifes squatting in foreclosed homes. It can happen so quickly!
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Literally!...We live in a small town in North Carolina. Very quiet, very Mayberry where everyone knows everyone. My husband called me on his way in to the office this morning and described a scene right out of the Andy Griffith Show that had me laughing so hard I had to share it.

He went to the barber shop on his way in to work and the barber was sitting in the doorway to his shop admiring an expensive, fancy sports car parked along main street. My husband and he checked it out and the barber said it had been sitting there for two days and was covered in dust with a license plate that says "Nvr fold" from a neighboring state. The car is a brand new Astin Martin model with a starting retail price of $126,000.00 (according to Siri). What is a car like this doing in our little quiet town?

So what do Floyd the barber and Gomer do (my husband is way better looking and much more intelligent than Gomer but I always liked that character from Mayberry so I'm going with it)?...they call Barney from the Sheriff's office over to help them investigate, of course! When Barney arrives, they first ask if he can unlock the doors so they can get a better look inside the car...unlike Barney, our deputy does not comply. LOL But he DOES run the plates and determine that the car is not stolen. Then they check to see if there are any poker tournaments in our area judging by the lingo on the license plate...might be a "whale" in town for a game of "Texas Hold'em"...nope, no tournament.

So Floyd, Gomer and Barney go next door and ask the lady who runs the pizza parlor if she knows anything about the car and she says she saw an Asian man in his 40's pull up in it the other day but didn't know who he was and hadn't seen him since. In a town where everyone knows each other, a middle-aged Asian man would certainly stand out and so the plot thickens. 0.o


that is soooo awesome!!!! Mayberry is my favorite show. I'm from small town Americana and I love love love it!!!! I wish every town was a Mayberry (sighs wistfully ). Btw I'm also interested in the outcome Gomer so please keep us informed!

They are left with no choice and Barney does the only thing he can do...he writes a ticket for being parked there overnight (which I didn't realize til now that that was a violation) and puts it on the car windshield. Now there's a stakeout going on between Floyd the barber, Barney the deputy and the lady from the pizza parlor (Gomer had to get on to work but is monitoring the situation and will follow up on his way home) to see if anyone comes back to the car today. I guarantee you, if my husband didn't have pressing matters at work to deal with, he would be sitting on a bench outside the barbershop today with a newspaper spying on that car til the owner returned! The suspense is killing us! LOL

*Sigh* I love living in a small town.
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This is hilarious! ! This is EXACTLY the same kind of small town I live in..We have 1 barber shop , a post office and a pizza place, and an ice cream place. THAT'S IT in the whole town! The nearest cop/ sheriff is 18 miles miles away. All farmers and everybody knows everybody and watches out for everybody and their property. .I LOVE IT. I live out in the middle of 3 corn fields that are alternated with bean fields every other year. Ahhhhh the simple life.

I've lived in Houston, Ga, Fla, N.C. and Oklahoma. And I love where I'm at now. I'm done with the big cities.
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Once, when we first moved to our small town from a much larger city, my husband and I worked together in an office on main street. Our children would get off the bus in the afternoons at our office.

One afternoon, we had locked the office to run an errand and it took longer than expected so we didn't get back until shortly after the bus had dropped the kids off from school. We expected to see them sitting outside the office on the sidewalk bench but they were not there, we ran down the sidewalk to the barber shop where there was a tv, thinking they went there to watch cartoons til we got back. They weren't in the barber shop either.

Panic started to set in when we passed the cake shop on main street and happened to look in and see them sitting at the counter with a soda in one hand and a large slice of chocolate cake in the other. When they found the office door locked, they made a beeline for the tasty after school snack. The owner of the store knew they were ours and extended a "line of credit" until we could collect them and pay the tab. I have been hooked on small town living ever since!
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Mt. Airy is nice.
I ate there once, it was nasty.
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Yes, it is a nice place. I love to walk the main street.
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My Hometown is to this day populated by less than 600 people.

My Father & Brother still live there just outside of town on 600 acres of family land.

Bliss... I love it there.
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Checking in from another "Mayberry" town in NC. I love it here too. Except for the busy-body Baptist women... They make me crazy at times. Other than that, this place is awesome !

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This is hilarious! ! This is EXACTLY the same kind of small town I live in..We have 1 barber shop , a post office and a pizza place, and an ice cream place. THAT'S IT in the whole town! The nearest cop/ sheriff is 18 miles miles away. All farmers and everybody knows everybody and watches out for everybody and their property. .I LOVE IT. I live out in the middle of 3 corn fields that are alternated with bean fields every other year. Ahhhhh the simple life.

I've lived in Houston, Ga, Fla, N.C. and Oklahoma. And I love where I'm at now. I'm done with the big cities.
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Nothing like it!!!

I feel sorry for those city guys who think when shtf that they will just go to a nearby small town and blend in to escape the perils of the city. We have lived in our small town for nearly 10 years and I STILL wonder if that is long enough for the mountain folks here to truly see us as one of them. But we have a much better chance of being embraced when catastrophe strikes than any newcomer who will only be viewed suspiciously as a resource for supplies and tossed to the side!

Small town folk are very leery of strangers but once you're in...you're family! My husband's profession helped the town to embrace us early on but I swear, it was the coaching of little league baseball that sealed the deal!

Long live Mayberry!
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My Hometown is to this day populated by less than 600 people.

My Father & Brother still live there just outside of town on 600 acres of family land.

Bliss... I love it there.
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"Bliss"...perfect word for it!
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Literally!...We live in a small town in North Carolina. Very quiet, very Mayberry where everyone knows everyone. My husband called me on his way in to the office this morning and described a scene right out of the Andy Griffith Show that had me laughing so hard I had to share it.

He went to the barber shop on his way in to work and the barber was sitting in the doorway to his shop admiring an expensive, fancy sports car parked along main street. My husband and he checked it out and the barber said it had been sitting there for two days and was covered in dust with a license plate that says "Nvr fold" from a neighboring state. The car is a brand new Astin Martin model with a starting retail price of $126,000.00 (according to Siri). What is a car like this doing in our little quiet town?

So what do Floyd the barber and Gomer do (my husband is way better looking and much more intelligent than Gomer but I always liked that character from Mayberry so I'm going with it)?...they call Barney from the Sheriff's office over to help them investigate, of course! When Barney arrives, they first ask if he can unlock the doors so they can get a better look inside the car...unlike Barney, our deputy does not comply. LOL But he DOES run the plates and determine that the car is not stolen. Then they check to see if there are any poker tournaments in our area judging by the lingo on the license plate...might be a "whale" in town for a game of "Texas Hold'em"...nope, no tournament.

So Floyd, Gomer and Barney go next door and ask the lady who runs the pizza parlor if she knows anything about the car and she says she saw an Asian man in his 40's pull up in it the other day but didn't know who he was and hadn't seen him since. In a town where everyone knows each other, a middle-aged Asian man would certainly stand out and so the plot thickens. 0.o

They are left with no choice and Barney does the only thing he can do...he writes a ticket for being parked there overnight (which I didn't realize til now that that was a violation) and puts it on the car windshield. Now there's a stakeout going on between Floyd the barber, Barney the deputy and the lady from the pizza parlor (Gomer had to get on to work but is monitoring the situation and will follow up on his way home) to see if anyone comes back to the car today. I guarantee you, if my husband didn't have pressing matters at work to deal with, he would be sitting on a bench outside the barbershop today with a newspaper spying on that car til the owner returned! The suspense is killing us! LOL

*Sigh* I love living in a small town.
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You are so lucky! We use to be like that until Detroiters began moving into a town nearby and meth etc.
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We are blessed! Sorry to hear that about your town.

I grew up in a town in the South that was thriving when I lived there because of a denim manufacturing plant in the area. Shortly after graduation, that plant was shut down and I am concerned for my aging parents who still live there. Their once nice quiet neighborhood is now surrounded by drugs, crime and low-lifes squatting in foreclosed homes. It can happen so quickly!
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Thanks. hf I hope you are soon able to get your parents to move somewhere else.
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Checking in from another "Mayberry" town in NC. I love it here too. Except for the busy-body Baptist women... They make me crazy at times. Other than that, this place is awesome !

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Oh my gosh...YES! The many "Aunt Bea's" that live here and nose in everyone's business is quite annoying!

We had one come by our home just the other day to drop off her grandchild for a playdate. She tried to start gossiping about a conversation she had with someone else in town and I just nipped it in the bud and told her I didn't like talking about others. She looked at me like I was from another planet. It's funny, too, because she had trouble finding much to say after that...like all she knew was dirt on other people. LOL

The slowness of a small town breeds that in people, I think. You have to FIGHT the urge not to participate cause those same people that talk to you about others will talk ABOUT you to others as well!
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Literally!...We live in a small town in North Carolina. Very quiet, very Mayberry where everyone knows everyone. My husband called me on his way in to the office this morning and described a scene right out of the Andy Griffith Show that had me laughing so hard I had to share it.

He went to the barber shop on his way in to work and the barber was sitting in the doorway to his shop admiring an expensive, fancy sports car parked along main street. My husband and he checked it out and the barber said it had been sitting there for two days and was covered in dust with a license plate that says "Nvr fold" from a neighboring state. The car is a brand new Astin Martin model with a starting retail price of $126,000.00 (according to Siri). What is a car like this doing in our little quiet town?

So what do Floyd the barber and Gomer do (my husband is way better looking and much more intelligent than Gomer but I always liked that character from Mayberry so I'm going with it)?...they call Barney from the Sheriff's office over to help them investigate, of course! When Barney arrives, they first ask if he can unlock the doors so they can get a better look inside the car...unlike Barney, our deputy does not comply. LOL But he DOES run the plates and determine that the car is not stolen. Then they check to see if there are any poker tournaments in our area judging by the lingo on the license plate...might be a "whale" in town for a game of "Texas Hold'em"...nope, no tournament.

So Floyd, Gomer and Barney go next door and ask the lady who runs the pizza parlor if she knows anything about the car and she says she saw an Asian man in his 40's pull up in it the other day but didn't know who he was and hadn't seen him since. In a town where everyone knows each other, a middle-aged Asian man would certainly stand out and so the plot thickens. 0.o

They are left with no choice and Barney does the only thing he can do...he writes a ticket for being parked there overnight (which I didn't realize til now that that was a violation) and puts it on the car windshield. Now there's a stakeout going on between Floyd the barber, Barney the deputy and the lady from the pizza parlor (Gomer had to get on to work but is monitoring the situation and will follow up on his way home) to see if anyone comes back to the car today. I guarantee you, if my husband didn't have pressing matters at work to deal with, he would be sitting on a bench outside the barbershop today with a newspaper spying on that car til the owner returned! The suspense is killing us! LOL

*Sigh* I love living in a small town.
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You are so lucky! We use to be like that until Detroiters began moving into a town nearby and meth etc.
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We are blessed! Sorry to hear that about your town.

I grew up in a town in the South that was thriving when I lived there because of a denim manufacturing plant in the area. Shortly after graduation, that plant was shut down and I am concerned for my aging parents who still live there. Their once nice quiet neighborhood is now surrounded by drugs, crime and low-lifes squatting in foreclosed homes. It can happen so quickly!
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Thanks. hf I hope you are soon able to get your parents to move somewhere else.
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Thanks. They are working on it. It's hard when all the kids grow up and split, leaving all the aging parents in a washed-up town that no one wants to go back to and live in. And none of the older parents want to leave because that is where their memories and friends are...or crime has settled in and lowered the property values such that they CAN'T sell their homes and move out. It's a no win situation. :(
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Sounds awesome OP... Our city is not huge, but not small.. About 200,000.... Your place does sound blissful....
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Sounds awesome OP... Our city is not huge, but not small.. About 200,000.... Your place does sound blissful....
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It is. Our town is just close enough to a larger city for all the conveniences that come with it but just far enough away from the bustle that coming home after a day of work feels like going on vacation.

Not to brag but...right now, we have cows in a field by our house that are having their spring babies and flocks of wild turkey strutting around all puffed up, deer bounding through the same field early in the morning while we watch from our deck sipping coffee, neighbors turning over their fields, baby bunnies coming out from their burrows and the cherry trees that line our town's main street are in full bloom with the tulips coming up around our town square gazebo! It is like heaven on earth!

And all of this was interrupted today by a strange sports car parked on main street by a strange Asian man no one has seen in two days. But I am not concerned! Floyd, Gomer and Barney are ON IT!
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Any word from Floyd, Gomer? Our phone call ended before I could ask!

Please post updates here :)
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Now I would be remiss if I didn't tell you what I believe The Lord is showing me today through this little story, as a "Watcher" on the wall.

When I woke up this morning, the first thing that popped up on my laptop when I opened it to check the news was a website I have not visited in weeks that showed a calendar of the Hebrew Feast Days. I called "Gomer" at work to see if he had opened this webpage so as to rule out his web searches this morning before I woke up. He assured me he had not opened this tab and then proceeded to tell me the story I have shared here of the mystery sports car.

What I saw on that Feast Day calendar revealed that today is the last day of the Passover Feast Celebration of "Unleavened Bread". Being new to these Feast observances, I was not aware that today held any significance but now I realize otherwise.

Back to the story...we have a very expensive sports car on our main street stirring up the locals here with a license plate that says "Nvr Fold" on a day that marks the last of the Passover Feasts following this third blood moon. I can't help but make some connections with this car and the message on it's plate with today's significance revealed on the Feast calendar I was shown this morning.

We are to be LOOKING UP for our Redemption, especially during this Passover season with all the signs God is showing us. Could this car be a spiritual sign of the abundant riches and blessings that await those who do not "fold" and who endure the coming calamities to the end, who keep their focus on Jesus Christ and stay on His path through what is to come? I believe so!

There are no coincidences! Everything...EVERYTHING...points to Jesus Christ for those of us watching and waiting patiently for what He is getting ready to do. He is about to make His move and those connected to Him can feel how late we are in this hour. I believe the calendar I saw this morning was a reminder to me of just what time we are on His prophetic clock and this car could well be the reminder of the blessed Hope that awaits those of His Body that "NVR FOLD" but are ready to stand in this coming hour of temptation!

Seek Jesus Christ now while we still have today. Not one of us is promised tomorrow!

"Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown." Revelation 3:11

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[link to straitwaytruth.com]
Above is the webpage that popped up first thing when I opened my laptop this morning. This, too, I believe, was no coincidence!

LOOK UP!
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Loved the story, OP. Please keep us updated.

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Loved the story, OP. Please keep us updated.


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HAHAHAHA!!!
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You guys have a song for everything! PERFECT!
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Great thread Watcher.

My dad was from a small town in SC. I hated visiting there when I was a kid because it was so "boring"! But looking back now there was always something really great about it. Everyone was sweet as pie, and boy, those women could cook! Everybody told us kids which relatives we "favored". I miss those days now.

This song always reminds me of those days



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Great thread Watcher.

My dad was from a small town in SC. I hated visiting there when I was a kid because it was so "boring"! But looking back now there was always something really great about it. Everyone was sweet as pie, and boy, those women could cook! Everybody told us kids which relatives we "favored". I miss those days now.

This song always reminds me of those days


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Sweet song. Pretty much sums it up. It is slower here but that makes things like a mystery sports car all the more interesting!

My kids are about to get their drivers' license and I guarantee you, we will know before they get home if they have rolled through a stop sign or gone too fast down our road...just like my neighbors used to call my dad on me. It sucks when you are a teenager but has its definite perks when you are the parent!
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