When shopping at Safeway, it is not unlikely that the ten minute trip will turn into an hour long conversation with a third grade teacher, or the woman who has lived down the street for twenty years. The high school’s graduating class has been together since kindergarten, and most of the teachers also taught those graduate parents. As a result, people from small towns are outrageously friendly; more than willing to have a conversation or learn about another persons life, even if it is in the bathroom at Olive Garden. Additionally, everyone is someone in a small town. From a young age, children are instilled with the understanding that people have a life beyond what can be seen. That person may be the biology teacher but, he is also a wonderful
