Rochelle Small Town Humor

You were in the FFA. (Yes I was)
You even know what FFA is. (Yes I do)
You said the 'f' word and your parents knew within the hour. (It did happen)
You ever went snipe hunting. (Took some cousins and nephews)
You have ever taken a dog to school. (Cause he would not go back to the house)
Your teachers call you by your older sibling’s names.
Your teachers remember when they taught your parents. (my 5th grade teacher, John Adkins, taught my dad in 8th grade)
You have ever gone home for Homecoming. (been back to Rochelle for several)
It was cool to date someone from the neighboring town. (married a girl from Brady)
Football coaches suggest that you haul hay for the summer to get stronger.
You can name everyone you graduated with. (Linda, Donna, Jimmy, Dorman, Johnny, Jose, Gussie, Randy and Carl)
The whole school went to the same party after graduation.
You wore your letter jacket after your 19th birthday. (and 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, etc, don’t fit no more…lol)
You used to run the drag on “Main Street." (in Brady)
You bragged to your friends because you got pipes on your truck for your birthday.
You see at least one friend a week driving a tractor through town.
It is normal to see an old man riding through town on a riding lawnmower.
You decide to walk to a friends house and 5 people pull over and offer a ride.
You give directions using the only stop light in town as a reference.(only one traffic signal in Rochelle last time I looked)
Getting paid minimum wage is considered a raise.
You refer to anyone with a house newer than 1980 as the "rich folks".
You think the people in the city (Brady) dress funny.
Even the not so pretty girls enter the school beauty pageants.
You can charge at all the local stores. (when Matthews Grocery was open)
The closest McDonald's is 12 miles away (in Brady).
The closest mall is 45 miles away. (in Brownwood)
Weekend excitement involves a trip to a Wal-Mart. (in Brady)
You laugh your butt off reading this because you know they're all true and forward it to everyone who visits sixmanfootball.com (because you know a lot of them and they can relate)
 
Surely Joe Gayle Johanson was there then. I figure they built the school around him. Any ways, he popped every one's neck except for the year I was there. I could see myself on the witness stand swearing on a bible and some kid in a wheel chair sitting there.
 
Joe was in Rochelle before and after you. Just how good is your memory? Joe was coaching in Water Valley '74 and '75(football years not graduating classes). You might remember him on the sidelines. He was at Novice for the '76 football year and I think '77 before returning to Rochelle where he grew up.
 
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