you can tell I live rurally because...

[FightingFires]

This new section is the most exciting thing that has happened in ages! [Grin]

:o at takeaway
I ordered a dominoes pizza when we first moved here and the second time I went order one they had removed our post code ¡

Takeaway? Ha, ha, ha.

Good joke, well done.

Does Father Christmas bring it on his sleigh?

Lmao at takeaway

People say to me, Oh let's go out for lunch, where shall we go? Umm THE pub?

Snort

LOL at BikeRunSki - my DC also used to consider 3 cars queuing at a turn to be a traffic jam

The closest we have to a takeaway is an offer to meet us at the city limits (12 miles away), but once a week everyone in the pub phones in a collective order which one designated driver goes to collect.

... everyone I dated in high school had previously dated one of my friends or went on to do so subsequently.

... my dad and I had our own respective corners at the only pub in town. And one must not go to the bar to fetch another drink while the other was being served.

... having hayfever meant that the only way I could make myself useful was to drive the tractor ... wearing a diving mask, so my eyes wouldn't swell up.

... my teenage crush actually meant to insult me mortally by accusing me of being 'one of those girls who end up going to uni and working in an office'.

... when I first stayed at a hotel I was most excited about the flushable toilet with actual water inside it which didn't stink.

Mind you, I ran the day after my 18th birthday and have been a happy city-dweller ever since. Have I mentioned my parents were hippie farmers?

Semi rural here so best of both worlds...

You lose the ability to parallel park as there are always plenty of parking spaces.

It doesn't cost anything to park your car.

You regularly see rabbit, pheasant, badger and frog roadkill .

The pub doubles up as a post office.

There are uninterrupted views of animals grazing, fields, hills, trees (and flowers in season) from every window.

Dc can watch the horses on the gallops every morning from their bedroom window.

You go on a school trip and kids comment on tractors,sheep and cows. all the feckin way to Belgium and back

You don't brake and stop for sheep on the road -much to the alarm of non rural passengers
(on an unfenced road, sheep get out of the way pretty quickly, slowing down slightly is enough)

You feel nervous if your petrol tank goes down to less than a quarter full.

You regularly buy clothing in the farm supply shop.

Loving reading these. I used to live rurally.

Woke up to cows at the end of my drive way more times than one should.

Hourly bus, none on Sunday.

Mud caked wellies.

Ability to drive on windy country roads without fear. That one always shocks my town friends

Local pub

Knowing everyone and their business.

Everyone knowing yours

Hourly bus, none on Sunday ... two buses a day, only one line, so never used as never needed to visit that town at that time on that day ...
Local pub is good, run by parents of dd's school mate, so she runs upstairs to play while we go to the pub; no baby sitter ... choir meets in pub, all composed of neighbours ...
Partridges and pheasants in the garden in the mornings, and great spotted woodpeckers ...
But - VERY dependent on car, hence diesel prices ...

Your kids a slightly feral and you wouldn't have them any other way

The pub is also a post office and shop.

You know pretty much everyone (and they know you).

You don't just 'pop to the cinema' on the off-chance that there'll be something you can watch.

Your house/car is never properly clean.

Your cupboards and chest freezer are never EVER empty.

Your kids' school has the same number of pupils in it as a single class in urban areas.

I can turn out of our lane onto the main road, travel 2 miles and still spot our house across the fields.

The fingernails are my right hand are filed down to nothing for lambing (late as we only have half a dozen for 'fun' although not actually that funny as still have to get up to check the buggers whether you have 6 or 600!).

The boys can drive the little tractor (aged 7 & 8)

You have a piece of 'emergency band' in coat pockets and car.

You take the kids to a play farm and they get excited when they spot a cat in the car park on the way home

The person on the telephone helpline can't believe how slow your internet connection actually is

You have a pair of best wellies

I need a torch to get to the house from the car.
I can't buy a white car for obvious reasons .
Driving to and from work is usually more like a rally car drive through mud ice floods and fallen branches

Yesterday I left my keys in the ignition and my open bag and phone on the front seat of my car while I watched a puppy being born in somebody's back garden. Today a pheasant appeared in my garden. I'm in bed now and none of my doors are locked. I love it here.

Our nearest neighbour is just over a mile away..............and it's a pub

you can't get a taxi to bring you home to your door! The nearest we can get a taxi to take us is from town to the nearest rural pub, which is still a 15 minute drive from home. As a city dweller, now married and living in the country, this was my first big shock!
A lot of people drink and drive as a result around where I live.

Love living rurally though!

Oh, and you are late for work because you met cows or horses out on the road....

Or, you get a phone call at 3am to tell you the cows or horses have gotten out!

I see foxes and hares on a daily basis....had an adorable baby foxcub in my garden this week!

What counts as semi rural dementedma?